It doesn't matter who ordered them. What matters is Porterbrook have sold ATW/WG/TfW a bunch of old age dogs with their own issues before they even started making the diesel engine mods. Surely it should be a leasing companies responsibility to complete full and heavy checks to know the exact quality of the unit and what, if anything needs doing.
The units should have been brought up to standard fit for service before going to the TOC, but there's been several issues with some of the units which had nothing to do with the diesel engine mods. You would never take on a new/second hand car without knowing it's faults and if you did you would be fully liable for dealing with those faults with full transparency as to what you are buying, something it seems TfW didn't have.
So either TfW have had the wool pulled over their eyes, or they have (stupidly) agreed to take them on without knowing the exact issues they come with.
TfW Rail (Keolis Amey) inherited the 769 order at the W&B franchise award in June 2018. A deal was done between Welsh Govt and Arriva TW to order the 769s in July 2017, with the 769s expected to enter service with ATW before they left the franchise
Exactly, so why would ATW take them on with the intention of getting them into service prior to the Franchise ending knowing there would be issues with them or not even checking the condition of them and adding a quality/reliability clause during the procurement process?
