Transport written question – answered at on 8 February 2010.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the likely cost of the refurbishment of the existing rolling stock on the East Coast Main Line; and how many additional years of service he estimates would be delivered by such refurbished rolling stock.
The Department for Transport has made an assessment of the likely cost of refurbishment of both the HST and 225 trains on the East Coast Main Line. A longer life extension would require more work, and so different estimates have been prepared according to the period of life extension. To release these estimates now would compromise the Department's commercial position in the negotiations with the preferred bidder Agility Trains.
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