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Topic: "153" units - now and future. (Read 2438 times)
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Graham Ellis
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According to wikipedia, Wessex Trains currently operate 15 x 153 single coach trains of the type use on all services except the first of the day through Melksham. 13 of these units are directly hired from the train stcok companies, and 2 come from central Trains which is another National Express service Under the new frachise, First will be hiring just 7 of the 153 units according to their Julian Crow. To be fair to Julian, he might not have been quite sure of this number when I asked him. He also came up with an annual figure for them to hire one of these units of 200000 pounds. |
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Graham Ellis
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Now here's a curious thing ... I've just watched the 30 minute show on Channel 4 - "Why the trains don't work" - and the annual cost of a class 333 (coach? train?) was quoted as 50k. That's a quarter of the quoted 153 cost ...
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