coppercapped
Established Member
Thanks. In that case, do we know how much extra the government is paying in rental costs?
The Government is not paying any leasing or rental costs to Agility Trains, the operating TOC pays Agility Trains for the completed diagrams according to a formula in the contract which has not been made public. The Government merely guarantees these payments.
The last announcement I saw a couple of months ago it was stated that the Government was still deciding whether to make a payment to Agility Trains directly to cover the extra costs for making all the trains bi-modes or to have the extra costs spread over the payments for the diagrams.