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I'm spending a lot of time on threads that pick apart current projects that are over time, over budget or going wrong in all sorts of ways: late and over budget new routes like Crossrail, late or curtailed electrifications, late stock builds, late stock conversions, unsatisfactory new stock, the list is endless. It isn't good for us to read too much of this sort of stuff at the end of the old year!
To cheer us up for the new year, can we reflect on on time on budget successes from the past ten years or so? The main one that I can think of is Airdrie-Bathgate, I don't remember any trip ups on the project other than union threats over eastward extension of Strathclyde DOO?
The King's Cross rebuild might be another?
Do we have any others: major infrastructure or rolling stock programmes that have gone to plan and kept to budget?
Maybe this will be a thread with no replies other than me corrected on my two recollections of success stories - Happy New Year when it comes anyway!
To cheer us up for the new year, can we reflect on on time on budget successes from the past ten years or so? The main one that I can think of is Airdrie-Bathgate, I don't remember any trip ups on the project other than union threats over eastward extension of Strathclyde DOO?
The King's Cross rebuild might be another?
Do we have any others: major infrastructure or rolling stock programmes that have gone to plan and kept to budget?
Maybe this will be a thread with no replies other than me corrected on my two recollections of success stories - Happy New Year when it comes anyway!
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