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[email protected] · July 25th 15, 12:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message

-september.
org, at 09:32:27 on Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Recliner
remarked:
The 27 four-car Class 387/2 EMUs are scheduled to enter service
between London Victoria station and Gatwick airport in 2016,

Starting in June 2015, and completed by the end of the year, according
to the franchisee. Oh dear.

Is *everything* to do with the railways a year late nowadays?

It's not late at all, is it? The order was only signed last November.

They must have signed the order late, because back in September 2014
when the combined TSGN franchise started they issued a flyer saying
that the new Gatwick Express fleet would start entering service in
June 2015.

The next deadline they are likely to miss (MizterT vapourware
alert!!) are "Franchise wide smart ticketing" and "Oyster extensions"
arriving in September 2015.

The latest "Connections" says this:

"Dec 2015 Target date for 108 new carriages on the Gatwick Express"

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Colin Rosenstiel