Paul Corfield wrote:

An internal memo just published says the following :-

"The Victoria Line upgrade will see a fleet of 47 bigger, state of the
art eight car trains introduced into service from 2009 and 2012.

As part of the development of the new rolling stock, one of Metronet's
contractual obligations [1] is to conduct Customer Acceptance Testing
(CAT).

(snip)

[1] a bit of the contract I was involved in getting written in!


I'm glad to hear that someone managed to slip at least one sensible
clause into an infraco contract! Perhaps it's time to 'fess up' and
tell us what else you and your right thinking colleagues got past the
common-sense filter that was installed at 55 Broadway during the PPP
negotiations ;-)