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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.

Er, doesn't that just make the Lloyds TSB subsidiary another Rosco? What's
the main difference?

Who's going to look after them, then?

Bombardier, at Ilford - according to their press release:

http://www.bombardier.com/en/transpo...01260d8008ecc3

And what happens to them after the end of NXEA'a franchise?

Nothing, other than a relivery. New trains like these are normally tied to
the franchise - DfT will simply require any new operator to take on the
fleet. By then the idea will be to find a way of replacing the older stuff
like 317s.

IIRC this is why the competition commission reported that there was no
likelihood of any incoming franchisee changing the existing rolling stock,
unless requested to by DfT. An example of this was GoVia, with the LM 321s
and 150s

Paul