Opportunity to use of (Class 230) D Stock to Open/Enhance Services

[contractador]

So I was wondering, currently the D stock/class 230 project has suffered some challenges (e.g. Northern/East Anglia franchises). However, what if instead of using these trains as a stop-gap measure for electrification, they were used to enable the re-establishment or significant enhancement of services on a lower cost basis than would otherwise be the case?

I appreciate that whilst significant, rolling stock is not the only cost element. However, would there be projects around the UK where this may mean that a route creation/enhancement is able to take place that otherwise might not?

NB I have created a separate forum as my question is around the feasibility of using the units for creating new routes/opportunities rather than the units themselves

 

[najaB]

First rule of the D-Train: you do not talk about the D-train.

 

[WatcherZero]

Second rule of the D train, you do not talk about the D train.

 

[J-2739]

Third rule of the D train... Oh, anything better than the pacer,sir!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Let's start talking about this when it has passed all its proving trials and then served its term on the Coventry to Nuneaton line.

 

[Harbornite]

There's already a thread on this, and it has more than 230 bloody pages, even though the thing hasn't turned a wheel on the national network, save for the LU and Long Marston sidings.

 

[yorkie]

So I was wondering, currently the D stock/class 230 project has suffered some challenges (e.g. Northern/East Anglia franchises). However, what if instead of using these trains as a stop-gap measure for electrification, they were used to enable the re-establishment or significant enhancement of services on a lower cost basis than would otherwise be the case?

If you have any suggestions for particular improvements to services, feel free to post a thread. But if not...

I appreciate that whilst significant, rolling stock is not the only cost element. However, would there be projects around the UK where this may mean that a route creation/enhancement is able to take place that otherwise might not?

Any low cost vehicle will help, but this isn't the only option...

NB I have created a separate forum as my question is around the feasibility of using the units for creating new routes/opportunities rather than the units themselves

My understanding is that the original thread has already looked at such issues. A thread dedicated to a particular proposal is fine, but I don't think we want a thread discussing all sorts of different projects up and down the country which may or may not be able to use this particular solution.