jagardner1984
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The Scotrail franchise is already the largest contract the SG put out to tender, this one was £7billion over ten years.
I read the BBC article as meaning their costs exceed income (from subsidy and passengers) by £10 million this year.
Presumably this is down to additional costs around new/refurbished rolling stock that they haven’t managed to recover from suppliers (and associated cancellations and fines).
I am sure they wonder how many Bi mode 4/5 car 802s Hitachi would have got into service by now, and the relative costs/benefits. Particularly as the next franchisee is probably going to have to handle the HSTs being properly end of life around 2030. Given where we are at environmentally and Glasgow’s aim to be net zero by 2030, I do think belching diesel fumes from by then 50 year old trains into the Queen Street concourse every hour will look somewhat out of place.
I read the BBC article as meaning their costs exceed income (from subsidy and passengers) by £10 million this year.
Presumably this is down to additional costs around new/refurbished rolling stock that they haven’t managed to recover from suppliers (and associated cancellations and fines).
I am sure they wonder how many Bi mode 4/5 car 802s Hitachi would have got into service by now, and the relative costs/benefits. Particularly as the next franchisee is probably going to have to handle the HSTs being properly end of life around 2030. Given where we are at environmentally and Glasgow’s aim to be net zero by 2030, I do think belching diesel fumes from by then 50 year old trains into the Queen Street concourse every hour will look somewhat out of place.