The Department for Transport's promise of bringing 1,300 new rail carriages into service by 2014 is "over-optimistic", according to a House of Commons report on the DfT's rail franchising policy.
The Department for Transport: Letting Rail Franchises 2005-2007 by the Commons' public accounts committee states that: "There are only 423 carriages on order so far, and another 150 carriages are the subject of negotiations.
"It take 30 to 36 months to mobilise the supply chain,...
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