Wyrleybart
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In all honesty they bit off more they could chew. The had too.much in their order books
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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway
Here is a list of the deliveries and testing info to date: 701002 delivered to Eastleigh on 10 June 2020; testing under way; returned to Worksop for completion on 10 November 2020 701004 delivered to Wimbledon on 30 June 2020 701005 delivered to Eastleigh on 20 July 2020; testing under way...
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On the face of it they may have bit off more than they could chew, given their factory and staffing capacity, but maybe had they opened another facility somewhere and recruited staff to operate it, perhaps a different outcome. Is there still an empty works at Ashford ? Could they have dedicated a train factory there, even if only of limited lifetime maybe ?
Hypothetical now but there is no way in a world of pigs pudding that the Aventra production could have run to any kind of a timetable if three or four of ROGs diesels are shuttling half built trains around the country day after day. That is expensive and time consuming - neither conducive to Alstom's well being.
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