RealTrains07
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I get your point. I just think this whole issue of TOCs or DfT (cant remember which has more say over things these days ?) being allowed to choose cheap looking, tech faulty trains rather than prioritise using stock which already exists and is off lease which is good enough stock obvs the DMU shortage doesnt help that fact but..the thing you've got to remember also is that we have 357s, 379s, 350/2s all coming off lease with no home to go to as well as all the heathrow stock. in an ideal world where there is scope to electrify everything and it was actively being done I could see your point, but in a privatised world of cheap new trains and ROSCO"s being profit making machines the ideal use of resources in a economic way is given up to profit. Also, I imagine they are simply not being 'given' away, and that a ROSCO is either going to be leasing them or selling them outright (for the life of me I can't remember which stock is owned by Heathrow airport so some of this might be wrong)
end of the day if we send 360/2 overseas we will never get them back while at least with stock being off lease it still is here and doesnt get lost forever