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Of the /9 and 466, my records have:
465905, 918, 920, 921, 931, 933, 934.
466001, 005, 009, 010, 013, 016, 017, 024, 027, 030, 033, 034.
all having left for storage in the North recently.
By my reckoning 196105, 112, 113, 114 are still to work.
Seem to be taking an age so is this a 'money saving' reason, or lack of parts to finish them reason ?
Has the suggested Tender for total Fleet Replacement been quietly canned?
Not heard about it for a while, yet these Networkers are slowly being removed and like us, are not getting any younger!
Which was noticed yesterday at Great Malvern when I had to physically lift an old gent down from 196005.
The height gap was simply unsafe, and I'm 6'4" but still had to jump.
No, I said "if it looks like....and smells like....it probably is".
Big difference.
And thats exactly why we are where we are. Everybody can see something is very wrong with the amount spent on the emperors new clothing, but everyone is scared to say so.
But just in case there are any WA...
I said I would be looking FOR corruption, not that there IS corruption.
Its taxpayer money not shareholder money, and Govs are supposed to have robust procurement rules and recourse - there are plenty of HMRC laws where company failure results in the former Directors being personally liable, so...
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