其實呢啲contract 應該幾好賺
唔駛分擔財務風險,又唔使直接maintain infra
正正常常咁做就有錢收,infra / 罷工又冇乜責任
MTR 做呢啲contract 嘅收入佔咗總收入嘅40%-50%
雖然大部分係大陸地鐵
99% of Shunt Signals are not fitted with TPWS (under exclusion code 'S'), with only Shunt Signals that are either protecting trap points, used for the exit of a depot / yard, or that are limit of shunts being fitted with TPWS
The tender for the then-new franchise in 2015 originally permitted the continued use of Pacer trains, as it was judged by the Department for Transport (DfT) that a new rolling-stock order represented "poor value for money.". However the House of Commons Transport Select Committee described the continued use of Pacer trains as "unacceptable" and recommended that the Secretary of State use franchise specification power to include the need for a new rolling-stock order. Subsequently, the then Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin issued a ministerial directive in February 2015 to force the new franchise to include a new rolling-stock order as part of the franchise agreement, which would enable the Pacer trains to be phased out.