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Bids for West Coast went in beginning of May, winner announced mid August. So if same timetable applies, ScotRail bids will be submitted in March, winner announced around July.

IC70 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattingham/419302172/ IC80 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowan826/3493659610/

Even if Virgin get 100,000 signatures apparently the epetition could, rather than will, be debated in the House of Commons http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/how-it-works If none of the bidders seek a judicial review by next Monday the DfT would be free to enter into a contract with First...

Giles Fearnley First's Managing Director UK bus was formerly Chairman of Grand Central and MD of Prism Rail http://www.firstgroup.com/latest_news/?id=006841

Greater Anglia's Mk3s are a combination of the original loco hauled Mk3As introduced from 1975 on the West Coast, some RFMs converted from HST stock and some Mk3Bs FOs built in the mid 80s for the West Coast Pullman services. The latter can be identified by their IC80 seating and different...

Doesn't expire until November 2014. Apart from the plan announced for the Sleepers to have their own franchise, dont expect much until the formal process kicks off in the 2nd half of 2013.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel if they need Joey Barton's support, next they will be enlisting the support of Ronnie Biggs.

Timetable will be exactly as now minus the Olympic extras.

Indicates the seating capacity will be 439 and 589 respectively for 9 and 11 car Pendolinos. How much does this differ from the current capacity?

I believe EMT have 24 power cars and 10 sets to operate 8 diagrams, 9 on Summer Saturdays http://www.125group.org.uk/diagrams-EMT.pdf

Pre TOPS '00' locos tended to gain the last number in the new series eg D9000 became 55022, D6700 became 37350.

They are likely to have already sought tenders from manufacturers and may have even signed a contract that had a get out clause should they not win. Recall that Chiltern signed a contract for their first 168s within weeks of being awarded the franchise indicating the process had been made...

Rubbish, 350s have a top speed of 110mph.

But was rejected I believe as DfT will only give paths to 125mph stock, which even though HST trailers and class 67s are cleared for, can't be granted to a 67 + Mk3 combination for some reason.

A couple of days I would imagine, depends on how many teams you have doing the work.

XC had a 220017 revinyled for launch day.

If you read through the previous ITTs that list the existing rolling stock and leases, stock is only ever leased until the end of the franchise.

That's what we will see, even if it is decided to relivery all 76 trains as a priority would take at least a year to complete. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Normally as long as a set can be spared then it will be taken behind closed doors and reliveried in the last week of a...

Given its ability to only operate at 110mph, if WB64 stays imagine it would be restricted to Birmingham services to minimise its time on the WCML. Once the H3 overhauls are completed this year there should be 1 or 2 extra Pendolinos available. The Blackpool service will probably be operated by...

Don't think there has ever been anything special on a final service, a couple of bashers, snappers and a sign in the window is normally about it before the train disappears into the night. Although WSMR was slightly different, but then that did involve job losses and all came about in a couple...