This from Ithuriel...
From a written answer by Theresa Villiers on 6 March.
DfT asked the rail industry to look into the possibility of improving the existing fleet of diesel Cross Country Voyager trains by adding an additional carriage with a pantograph and upgrading the rest of the train.
DfT asked the industry?!?
Do they take us for fools?
Bombardier and HSBC Rail were pushing Project Thor for months, with zero interest, or rather, active opposition, from DfT which saw it as a threat to IEP.
Now they claim it is their own idea!
No doubt the next claim will be that Marsham Street had to lean on Alstom, Angel, East Coast and Virgin to run Tuesday's Pendolino trial.
Grimsby and Back
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