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OJEU procurement legislation means they would have to readvertise the tender. The timescales effectively rule out new build, and the specifics only leave a small number of available options.

The overspend is at 2019 prices, which is when the phase one budget was set. Therefore inflation is backed out. It should always cost the same as at 2019 prices in real terms regardless of inflation. A large infrastructure project can not be simplified to the same logic as a domestic purchase.

This is the same logic as chasing a loss. Costs are so high the benefits are now lower than the costs. The more you spend the bigger the net loss to the country. Cancelling will allow assets and land to be sold off to recover some of the spend. £11bn of the £18bn spent so far is on land so...

When the question is we want to do this project, give us the costs and the benefits that give a Cost Benefit Ratio of greater than 2, and skilfully avoid any consultants who will give an answer less, its as more of a political problem, than one of contractors taking the UK for a ride. HS2...

The cost overruns in HS2 are sadly far too easy to have foreseen, to blame it on inflation is an easy to answer, but it needs to be said that the overspend is against 2019 prices, so backs out inflation. The blame for this catastrophe sits in the original costings, where land costs were...

323s in the early years were far from rare on Northmapton - Birmingham New Street Services. There was a Trent Valley service that would terminate at Rugby on a weekday evening certainly in the early 2000s. Stafford - Stoke local services were also a 323 from memory in addition to Birmingham -...

Its a heritage livery, the test centre was in Old Dalby when locos were painted in that livery originally. The test centre moved to Asfordby when Alstom took over the test centre for Pendolino testing following its closure by British Rail. Hence the Old Dalby lettering is reasonably authentic...

That is not to say the price is fixed for the length of the contract, large commercial agreements don't work anything like the same way as domestic contracts.

The answer is yes they can, and if you don't let them in they can get a warrant to force entry.

These were converted from SPA wagons around 2012. As part of the conversion they were ballasted to add the weight that was needed.

A few spring to mind around 1990 in the early days of the Anglia - North West trains there was a Cambridge to Barrow in Furness operated throughout by a 156. In the mid 2000s there was a Northampton to Grimsby operated by Central Trains via Birmingham New Street and Leicester. In the cross...

I think Workington North would technically meet the definition

Fares simplification is a complete non starter, because the fares have been set historically with at least four different logics. Revenue Maximisation, Demand Management, Headline Pricing and Social Pricing. Where revenue has been maximised any normalisation of the prices will have a...

When these wagons were built the channel tunnel freight projections were that freight would grow to rapidly to 10million tonnes per year, what actually happened was it never got close to those kind of numbers and is closer now to 1 million tonnes per year, therefore it really is no surprise that...

The first 25 were full intercity machines, then the next 12 upto 90037 were shared locomotives and the last 13 were freight locomotives. Class 90/1s were created as sectorisation to stop intercity steeling freight locomotives, exactly the same logic as creating 31/5s and 86/6s by removing the...

Rugby would be an oddity in that it has lost 4 northern bays, 1 southern bay (plus another southern bay not in regular use), as well platform for the Leicester line where the postal sorting office now is. The station also had scissor crossings on both the through platforms that were removed in...

Road usage spot data is next to useless for trying to establish demand between two points. It will have more people doing other journeys included, than the ones you are trying to count

That was only temporary for around 8 months or so whilst major work was done on the tunnel, not a service that would have led somebody to take a job, move house, or given up a car to take advantage of. A service existed that called at all stops between Nottingham and Coventry via Leicester but...

In the central trains days there was an early morning Northampton - Grimsby Town that was often a single 153. Total distance of around 195 miles, and more than cosy for a Coventry to New Street commute.

Difference would likely have been only 10 years or so before you ended up in the same place. Thatcher and the Tories would not have taken defeat lying down, and would have set out to defeat the coal industry and the unions in a different way. British Coal would have been privatised earlier...