PHILIP SHERRATT PRESENTS A ROUND-UP OF ROLLING STOCK CURRENTLY ON ORDER
The 2019 Golden Spanners awards (p54) cover a UK fleet in transition. New is replacing old, with a significant number of first-timers in the running for trophies, a trend which is set to continue in future years.
The table opposite shows rolling stock which has either been ordered or is in delivery. Since the last update of this table over a year ago, several new fleets have been fully deployed: the Caledonian Sleeper Mk 5 stock from CAF Hitachi’s Class 385s for ScotRail and Class 800/802s for Great Western Railway, and Siemens’ Class 717s for Govia Thameslink Railway’s Great Northern suburban services, whose delivery leaves Siemens without a main line fleet in the table.
Many of the fleets included are currently being delivered and entering service and in a year’s time will have dropped off this table. Others are going through the design phase or in the case of the Bombardier Aventra EMUs, waiting in the production queue at Litchurch Lane in Derby.
SPECIALISMS
What emerges is an interesting segmentation of the market. Even with the Great Western Railway fleet fully delivered and out of the table, the entries at the bottom show Hita…
