I have a couple of questions on renewals vs new installations:
1. Are the skills and the people involved fairly similar, so for example if a 'team' was renewing wires and structures on MML south of Bedford then we could still have 'x' electrification teams nationally and this is one of them which is clearly not adding to electrification mileage
2. Is renewal easier / harder so faster/slower or roughly similar to new installations (I understand that 'new installations' is not a homogeneous level of difficulty)
It seems to me the objective for electrification schemes right now is to build experience and knowledge steadily, share best practice and above all deliver to time and budget to avoid having to divert budget from elsewhere and this demonstrate capability of the whole system and process. Starting with simpler schemes seems more than reasonable and on that topic is there any reason why Victoria to Stalybridge may not be a simpler scheme?
1. Are the skills and the people involved fairly similar, so for example if a 'team' was renewing wires and structures on MML south of Bedford then we could still have 'x' electrification teams nationally and this is one of them which is clearly not adding to electrification mileage
2. Is renewal easier / harder so faster/slower or roughly similar to new installations (I understand that 'new installations' is not a homogeneous level of difficulty)
It seems to me the objective for electrification schemes right now is to build experience and knowledge steadily, share best practice and above all deliver to time and budget to avoid having to divert budget from elsewhere and this demonstrate capability of the whole system and process. Starting with simpler schemes seems more than reasonable and on that topic is there any reason why Victoria to Stalybridge may not be a simpler scheme?
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