SussexSpotter
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Looks pretty much set in stone now that with the collapse of the GWML electrification scheme, that the Class 319's will be staying on the Thameslink route (Bedford - Brighton) and the second phase of the rolling stock project (NXEMU Next Generation Trains) will now not be going ahead. However what will this mean for the 377/5 fleet (the first phase of the new rolling stock project), will they stay with FCC or will they still transfer to Southern as they were supposed to and more brought in to bump up the fleet? Also the proposed depots at Three Bridges and Hornsey, what will happen to these sites now? + will all the platform lengthening schemes for the 12 car trains carry on as normal?
Useful Links:
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/general/2010/07/23-new-doubts-over-great-western.html
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/gene...ation-looking-increasingly-unlikely-soon.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/04/railways-rolling-stock-cutbacks-network-rail
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/general/2010/06/04-hammond-orders-review-of-new.html
“The new Thameslink rolling stock, which was to have been ordered in two phases, is also being re-examined. If the larger second phase, in particular, didn’t go ahead as planned, then we won’t have Class 319 units freed up from Thameslink to cascade to Great Western suburban and the north west. And if we don’t have the 319s to run to Oxford and Newbury, what’s the point in electrifying those lines so quickly?
“For that matter, we should be questioning whether we should be going ahead for now with all our plans to lengthen platforms to 12 cars, if we won’t be getting the 12-car trains just yet.”
Useful Links:
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/general/2010/07/23-new-doubts-over-great-western.html
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/gene...ation-looking-increasingly-unlikely-soon.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/04/railways-rolling-stock-cutbacks-network-rail
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/general/2010/06/04-hammond-orders-review-of-new.html
“The new Thameslink rolling stock, which was to have been ordered in two phases, is also being re-examined. If the larger second phase, in particular, didn’t go ahead as planned, then we won’t have Class 319 units freed up from Thameslink to cascade to Great Western suburban and the north west. And if we don’t have the 319s to run to Oxford and Newbury, what’s the point in electrifying those lines so quickly?
“For that matter, we should be questioning whether we should be going ahead for now with all our plans to lengthen platforms to 12 cars, if we won’t be getting the 12-car trains just yet.”
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