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April 9th 08, 09:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel
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Thameslink NGEMU procurement - now in motion
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(Roland
Perry) wrote:
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at 03:48:54 on Wed, 9 Apr 2008,
remarked:
http://tinyurl.com/5asy9b
http://tinyurl.com/5deoog
Now we are looking at 1,100 vehicles
That's 200 more than last time Ruth Kelly announced it in July last
year:
http://www.gos.gov.uk/gose/news/news...rojectForRail/
(equivalent to 275 EMUs in 4-car formation), which according to
the DfT is a net increase of 380 vehicles.
An increase of 380 in the size of Thameslink's fleet. [1].
So is that 380 out of the "famous 1000 more", or are they 100 over
their budget already?
Nice to see this re-announced again, anyway (it confirms our
prejudices); I wonder how many more times the same thing will be
announced
[1] Is that 380 more than the original size, or 380 more than the
size of the fleet after expansion with the 48 carriages announced
almost exactly a year ago?
And does it include the GN units, 40 (or even 41) times class 365 and
about a dozen class 317s.
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