Whole-life train costs must include track wear

摘要

Against the background of such blunders as the procurement of more power-hungry EMUs without upgrading the 750 V DC supply, Network Rail's Chief Engineer Andrew McNaughton told Waterfront's HLOS conference on November 27 that 'the big cost: items over the whole of the system are so much about the interfaces between the two that we have to engineer it as a single system'.