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Old April 9th 08, 08:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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Default Thameslink NGEMU procurement - now in motion

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message
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at 03:48:54 on Wed, 9 Apr 2008,
remarked:
http://tinyurl.com/5asy9b
http://tinyurl.com/5deoog

Now we are looking at 1,100 vehicles


That's 200 more than last time Ruth Kelly announced it in July last
year:

http://www.gos.gov.uk/gose/news/news...rojectForRail/

(equivalent to 275 EMUs in 4-car formation), which according to
the DfT is a net increase of 380 vehicles.


An increase of 380 in the size of Thameslink's fleet. [1].

So is that 380 out of the "famous 1000 more", or are they 100 over
their budget already?

Nice to see this re-announced again, anyway (it confirms our
prejudices); I wonder how many more times the same thing will be
announced

[1] Is that 380 more than the original size, or 380 more than the
size of the fleet after expansion with the 48 carriages announced
almost exactly a year ago?


And does it include the GN units, 40 (or even 41) times class 365 and
about a dozen class 317s.

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Colin Rosenstiel