Charlie Smythe
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Two points:
I don't know whether GWR is responsible for the cleaning of the additional Class 802 trains bought by a ROSCO on its behalf. (Again - no public money is involved in the trains' purchase). I suspect that it is sub-contracted to Agility Trains for those trains which finish their diagrams at North Pole, Stoke Gifford and Swansea and the others will be dealt with by GWR directly.
- The trains procured under the IEP contract have been designed, manufactured and tested with no 'public' money being spent on them at all[1]. That is the whole point of the DfT's contract(s) with Agility Trains.
- As far as I am aware ALL the cleaning and maintenance of the IEP trains is carried out by Agility Trains under the terms of the IEP contract(s). So GWR is not directly involved - it simply supplies the train crews to run the trains.
[1] Apart from the shedloads of money the DfT spent on consultants in the years leading up to the IEP contract.
It was 7 additional 9 car sets that a ROSCO ordered for GWR wasn't it?