ForTheLoveOf
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It happened with Airdrie-Edinburgh but that was "merely" an extension of an existing DOO route, staffed by recruiting more staff onto DOO depots under longstanding DOO contracts. And that caused enough of a ruckus as it was.I know there is currently no answer to this, but after seeing https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/doo-why-in-some-places-and-not-others.206261/ it made me wonder: If/when this line is electrified, and presumably has 380/385s running on it, would the line also move over to DOO? Given that the 380 and the 385 both have body mounted CCTV which means platform monitors are not required, it would technically be very easy, but I wonder if any DOO expansion would be difficult even in a DOO area
I would say, never say never (cf the retrospectively trailblazing deal that GA thrashed out over the introduction of the Stadler Flirts). But it strikes me as suffirintly unlikely that a further extension of DOO will occur here, that you couldn't rely on resultant operational savings in any cost/benefit analysis. Of course in this case it appears electrification is (sensibly) a done deal, basically.