If you compare this with the previous shot you will see that this first batch of Fleetlines had a more conventional ventilation system. The same comparison also shows that they could be distinguished head-on from the later ones by the shallow number blinds. North Western 3 managed to keep the same fleet number in SELNEC days. It is seen here during the short-lived existence of SELNEC Cheshire, in which period things carried on pretty much as before at the Oldham depot, with the North Western vehicles still operating the same journeys on the same services.
