Urgent decisions needed on new train orders for Bakerloo line and Southeastern services

A new report from the Railway Industry Association (RIA) has shown that unless action is taken now on rolling stock orders for the upgrade or replacement of the oldest trains on the railway, thousands of jobs and decades of experience will be at risk of being lost.
The issue is that despite a surge in orders for new trains between 2012 and 2017, during which half the UK’s trains were replaced, the order book has been quite low ever since, and in less than a year, the major train factories