ROLLING STOCK: WILLIAMS-SHAPPS PLAN CREATES VACUUM

■ Opportunities for ROSCOs and manufacturers

■ GBR to specify ‘ride’

■ Long-term procurement process unclear

■ Boost for Train Service Provision contracts?

When analysing documents like the Williams-Shapps Plan (WSP) on screen, the ‘find’ feature is invaluable. Thus, there are only three references to ‘rolling stock’. And when I raised the topic with Keith Williams himself, he told me the review had largely ‘left rolling stock alone’.

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