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Devolved franchising powers & Leeds Trolleybus
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:21:47 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote: In separate news the Leeds Trolleybus scheme has been granted the go ahead and funding. http://www.dft.gov.uk/news/press-rel...ess-20120705b/ I wonder if they'll keep it cheap and simple and buy a tried and tested reliable off the shelf system from europe or go with the usual "the UK operating enviroment is a special case so we need to design everything from scratch" idiocy? B2003 |
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Devolved franchising powers & Leeds Trolleybus
On Jul 5, 3:59*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:21:47 +0100 Paul Corfield wrote: In separate news the Leeds Trolleybus scheme has been granted the go ahead and funding. http://www.dft.gov.uk/news/press-rel...ess-20120705b/ I wonder if they'll keep it cheap and simple and buy a tried and tested reliable off the shelf system from europe or go with the usual "the UK operating enviroment is a special case so we need to design everything from scratch" idiocy? B2003 ....They could go for the ultra cheap option of buying the fleet from Sandtoft and getting an access derogation on heritage grounds. |
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Devolved franchising powers & Leeds Trolleybus
In uk.railway d wrote:
I wonder if they'll keep it cheap and simple and buy a tried and tested reliable off the shelf system from europe or go with the usual "the UK operating enviroment is a special case so we need to design everything from scratch" idiocy? Well, they'll need some degree of customisation to be right hand drive, though looks like Wellington have some spa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Wellington Theo |
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