New stock delays hit services
THERE is a growing list of new rolling stock which is late entering service due to a variety of operational and safety compliance issues.
One factor is that the past approach of building a prototype for testing has been abandoned, with fleet orders being placed for untried types. This is reminiscent of British Railways’ Modernisation Plan error in the 1950s, where large numbers of diesel locomotives required subsequent modification to bring them up to acceptable levels of
