sentences:  In 2008, First Great Western applied to the Department for Transport to re-equip its Cardiff to Portsmouth via Bristol services with 11 new four-car DMUs which would potentially allow the existing Class 158 "Express Sprinter" trains to be transferred to other services.According to the West of England Partnership, these were likely to be "similar to Class 170s", suggesting that they might be Class 172 "Turbostars".The Government announced in December 2008 that Bombardier, with its "Turbostar design", was one of the pre-qualified bidders for the first 200 DMU vehicles of its planned 1300 new carriages.