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no the election will be October or later I'm afraid. May only possible if the opinion polls narrow dramatically

Just spin from DAFT I'm afraid. Those 'contracts' are not even close to being actually tendered, and even if they were put out to tender tomorrow they wouldn't reach the shop floor for what, 3 years? That doesn't help Alstom, nor Hitachi or Siemens either. Not to mention their respective supply...

Does make you think though. If enhancements or renewals were under the same time pressure as NR are under at Nuneham Viaduct we might make rail projects affordable and attractive to politicians again. E.g. 'you can have a new footbridge at Garforth again but it must be delivered in 6 months and...

its worse than that for passengers with deliberate (or if I was feeling more charitable) useless misinformation. I was at Paddington this morning just before 0800. The NRE app was showing the 0832 to Bristol as running normally as on time. With the platforms devoid of IETs and the PIS screens...

If true its a particularly appalling example of value engineering. The dive under project is solely for freight to be diverted from the ECML, now even more important as HS2 will no longer relieve it. According to DfT the rail network has to be decarbonised by 2040, yet for freight there is no...

'if it really is an issue which i don't accept'. oh dear...

No it means that Alstom takes over Bombardier’s share of the JV for HS2 if that JV bid is successful in winning the tender. The high speed remedy for the UK means that in future high speed tenders Hitachi has the option to license the product it has jointly developed with Bombardier to compete...

Yes HQ is in Germany but UK and global companies are both tax domiciled in UK according to Companies House

But tax domiciled in the UK..https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09862744

true though the order for phase 1 are all classic compatible

if you read the wording of the EU clearance press release, their decision has no impact on the Bombardier/Hitachi joint bid for HS2 which continues as now. The need for Bombardier to divest their share of the V300 Zefiro relates to mainland Europe not the UK.

The decision on HS2 rolling stock - preferred bidder at least - is supposed to be by the end of this year, so before the Alstom/Bombardier deal is completed. Also the high speed divestment for the UK is for 'future' bids which means post-HS2, not the current bid which continues unaffected. So...

A few miles north of there, just north of the old Braunston & Willoughby station is a concrete-posted distant signal gantry (no signal) which won't have seen a train for 54 years.

Terrible picture from the train but is the first wire north of Bedford? Looks like a run of neutral wire on the slows between Souldrop and Wymington, just south of the diversion maybe for 400m