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> The company added that there would be "only an extremely limited service with no alternative means of transport available" for those routes. These trains onl
by fy20 5y ago
> The company added that there would be "only an extremely limited service with no alternative means of transport available" for those routes.
These trains only first came into service in 2017 on GWR. I'm surprised they got rid of the Intercity 125 sets - which had been in service for 40 years on these routes - so quickly.
Of course it costs money to maintain the old rolling stock, so you don't want them sitting around, but they've replaced around 50 sets in the last 4 years. I would have thought they would have done it slower to avoid issues like this (GWR was the first train company to use this series).
- rwmj 5y agoThey're very capital intensive so it's understandable that they got rid of the old trains. The new train sets seem to be around £20 million each[1]. They're also not owned but rented by the train operating companies. [1] Very hard to find accurate prices, so that was got by dividing the number of sets by a contract price, probably only order-of-magnitude correct.