Editor’s Comment
Apr 29, 2018
3 minutes
CHRIS MILNER, Editor
Surplus trains could form a niche fleet
IN THE August 2016 issue of The RM we reported around 35 miles of siding space was needed to store the carriages being made redundant by new trains.
Further new train orders, coupled with the fact greater weighting is given by DfT to franchise bids involving new trains, has increased the uncertainty of existing and proven rolling stock.
No one, it seems, wants to acknowledge the ‘elephant in the room’ – just how and where nearly 4,000 redundant carriages
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