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Title: Chancellor confirms Intercity Express Programme is going ahead. Post by: Chafford1 on January 18, 2012, 20:12:52 From the Northern Echo:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/9479051.Osborne_confirms_Newton_Aycliffe_Hitachi_plant_on_track/ 'Today the Government said it hopes to reach "financial close" on the contract within weeks. And speaking on board a Hitachi-built Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo, Mr Osborne confirmed that construction of the factory is due to start later this year and the first trains due to roll off the production line at Newton Aycliffe as planned in 2016. He said: "I am here in Japan seeing for myself the technology that is behind the new trains that will be built in Britain.' Title: Re: Chancellor confirms Intercity Express Programme is going ahead. Post by: Rhydgaled on January 18, 2012, 21:33:30 Whatever happened to the information here: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=10150.msg105523#msg105523 (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=10150.msg105523#msg105523) that IEP wouldn't reach finantial close until May.
It is mad to sign the order yet, DaFT don't know what they are doing yet. 1. They don't know if Swansea, Hull and Harrogate will be wired. 2. The 'go anywhere' purpose of the bi-mode is fundementally flawed, because the 26m carriges limit them to specially cleared routes. 3. Building new bi-mode is enviromentally purverse when we have Voyagers running arround. Title: Re: Chancellor confirms Intercity Express Programme is going ahead. Post by: ellendune on January 19, 2012, 21:10:32 Read the words carefully. The chancellor did not say the deal was signed - he is just reiterating that they are preferred bidder and saying it will go ahead. Which was what was said previously.
Title: Re: Chancellor confirms Intercity Express Programme is going ahead. Post by: Rhydgaled on January 26, 2012, 09:02:36 The planned make-up of the IEP fleet appears to have changed again.
The franchise consulation says the number of weekday diagrams will be as follows: 26x IEP 5-car bi-mode 12x IEP 8-car bi-mode (previously I didn't think there were plans for any bi-modes other than 5-car) 11x IEP 8-car electric It appears to me that the 11 electric units will probably just be enough for the Bristol services which don't extend to Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton, but that leaves Cardiff (and the Oxford fasts that don't extend to Worcester/Hereford, if they are going IEP) with bi-modes 100% under the wires. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |