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NAO Overview of Dept of Transport 2019

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Nicholas Lewis

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This is an overview of the Dept of Transport activities in 2019 and although a little stale it has some good charts and dedicated section on rail.

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...al-Overview-Department-for-Transport-2019.pdf

The graph on P14 is quite telling in that it shows Franchise income has gone from £1.2B in 2016/7 to a forecast £0 in 2019/20. That's a big hole to fill along with all the bailouts to Crossrail and im guessing all the TOCs that are going pete tong in 2020.
 
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There is an attempt at an explanation by refering to revenus, however, also on that page is a chart showing that revenue has risen dramatically in the latest financial year, although there are words suggesting they don't really understand the stream.

Also, there is nothing about the NR daily operation cost compared to the sum of track access charges nor what part it is of the total NR budget.

Hopefully the NAO report on HS2 will shed more light on where and why changes have taken place.
 

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There's an interesting nugget that DfT has now paid Agility Trains (Hitachi etc) £97 million over 2 years for the delay in electrification infrastructure affecting the IEP programme.
Presumably that's for keeping serviceable IEPs in sidings rather than operating the GWR services planned in the contract.
 

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There's an interesting nugget that DfT has now paid Agility Trains (Hitachi etc) £97 million over 2 years for the delay in electrification infrastructure affecting the IEP programme.
Presumably that's for keeping serviceable IEPs in sidings rather than operating the GWR services planned in the contract.
I've not (yet) looked at the report, but could the extra spending include the cost of conversion of the some of the order for the IEP trains from straight electric to bi-mode?
 

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There's an interesting nugget that DfT has now paid Agility Trains (Hitachi etc) £97 million over 2 years for the delay in electrification infrastructure affecting the IEP programme.
Presumably that's for keeping serviceable IEPs in sidings rather than operating the GWR services planned in the contract.

I've not (yet) looked at the report, but could the extra spending include the cost of conversion of the some of the order for the IEP trains from straight electric to bi-mode?

A mixture of both I would suspect. Its probably a good thing that the IEP is a modular design so the engines can easily be added.
 

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Are there a bunch of IEP's sitting in sidings not yet in use with the reason being the severe delays to the various NR projects?
 

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I've not (yet) looked at the report, but could the extra spending include the cost of conversion of the some of the order for the IEP trains from straight electric to bi-mode?

The report is clear that it's compensation rather than additional cost associated with fleet configuration changes.
 
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