(14 Dec 2015, 5:25 pm)citaro5284 wrote http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...Chron-main
Cut in funding for modernisation plans
Great minds eh?
More or less an identical post at the exact same time!
(14 Dec 2015, 5:28 pm)Michael wrote Its mad eh?, they can spend all this money on refurbishing the trains but now they reckon it will cost £400m to replace them....... why didn't they just replace them first time around?Going solely off memory here, but...
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Means the other pot of money could of gone else where on the line....
Pretty sure they applied for money for new trains as part of the modernisation scheme and it was knocked back, in favour of a refurb.
Typical short term thinking by the Government, who have decimated the British train building industry over the years at the same time.