Wednesday 25 July 2012

Fleet reliability will be key for IEP

This from Ithuriel...

With DfT highlighting the importance of reliability in the IEP contract announcement, here is a list of today's Top 10 most reliable fleets on the national network.

(With thanks to an irate 'Captain of the Golden Spanners' for correcting the earlier version - so this with added Ford Imprimatur!) 
 

Ranking
Operator
Fleet
Maker
Miles per 3 min delay
1
South West Trains
Class 458
Alstom
105,761
2
South West Trains
Class 159/0
BREL
82,053
3
London
Midland
Class 350/2
Siemens
75,315
4
South West Trains
Class 159/1
BREL
70,240
5
South West Trains
Class 158
BREL
62,932
6
London 
Midland
Class 350/1
Siemens
58,652
7
South West Trains
Class 444
Siemens
51,369
8
South West Trains
Class 455
BREL/GEC
40,710
9
Cross
Country
Class 220
Bombardier
38,463
10
c2c
Class 357
Bombardier
37,840

Eye congratulates all the above manufacturers.

UPDATE: This from Button Moon...

I was just wondering if any of your esteemed readers could extend the table of manufacturers’ performance to include Messrs. Hitachi, who already have a fleet of trains operating in the South East? 


(Sadly, in the interest of fairness, Eye is unwilling to extend the range of the above table to include lesser performing fleets as Bombardier and Siemens have had quite enough free publicity for the reliability of their rolling stock already. Ed)

UPDATE: This from Deep Purple...

Further to the top ten table, the ‘Owner’ column appears to have been omitted.

This is at least as important as the ‘Maker’ and would make interesting reading, 7 of the top 10 and all 5 of the top 5 being Porterbrook fleets.

Derby may not build trains like it used to but Derby can certainly manage these assets better than the rest.