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(plcd1) wrote:

New press release from the DfT announcing that Bombardier have got the
contract for the 120 new carriages for the Stansted Express. Other
improvements flow from the transfer of trains from London Midland and
Clacton depot is to be reopened.

More here

http://nds.coi.gov.uk/environment/fu...seID=397597&Ne
wsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False

The new trains will be leased from Lloyds TSB I see, pursuant to the DfT's
vendetta against the ROSCOs. Who's going to look after them, then? And
what happens to them after the end of NXEA'a franchise? ISTR it was only
for 9 years, giving us enough grief planning the future of Cambridge
station.

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Colin Rosenstiel