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Tom Anderson · July 9th 08, 05:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article , (Nick Leverton)
wrote:

In article ,
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 14:31:28 on Tue,
8 Jul 2008, Paul Scott remarked:

and an order for new units for the Stansted Express (although that
has gone a little quiet).

East Midlands news today crowing about a Bombardier order for South
Africa that they've just started to deliver; also mentioned they
were building new trains for London "for the Olympics". What line
are they for (not Crossrail or Javelin, obviously).

No, no - they're for the 500 metre train pull.

This being the DfT's latest plan for how trains should propel
themselves in the event of power failure

Not exactly. They have no clue how trains should propel themselves in
the event of power failure. They are just specifying it as an essential
requirement in procurement and expecting suppliers to answer the
question for them.

I've just seen the latest update to that specification - apparently, they
also want a pony.

tom

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