northwichcat
Veteran Member
Porterbrook said:The winners of the Annual Modern Railways Golden Spanner Awards were announced at the Fourth Friday Club meeting on Friday 28th November 2014.
The awards, based on statistical data produced by ATOC, rewards excellence in rolling stock maintenance.
Porterbrook picked up 5 of the 6 available Gold awards as well as 2 Silver and 1 Bronze, a total of 50% of the available awards. The table below shows Porterbrook's winning fleets.
These results underpin Porterbrook's reputation of leading the industry on fleet performance and we would like to thank our partners for their contribution in achieving this success.
Gold - Most Reliable Fleet
Ex BR DMU Class 159/1 South West Trains
Ex BR EMU Class 455 South West Trains
New DMU Class 170 Cross Country
New EMU Class 458/1 South West Trains
Pacer Class 144 Northern
Silver - Most Improved
Ex BR DMU Class 153 London Midland
New DMU Class 170 London Midland
Bronze - Fastest Incident Recovery
New DMU Class 171 Southern
http://www.porterbrook.co.uk/pages/corp2014.html
The most reliable Pacer Class :roll: I imagine that's because they'll never win an award unless it's a Pacer only category. I notice 350s are no longer claimed to be the most reliable new EMU following on from this year's very poor performance.
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