Telegrammed by The Raver
Judging by his latest rant in Rail the batteries on Nigel Harris's calculator need changing.
He claims that the average age of rolling stock has halved since the bad old days of British Rail, which implies that at privatisation the average age of the passenger fleet was 26 years old.
In fact the true figure was closer to 14.5 years, not a great deal different from that of today.
Part of the reason for the higher average fleet age at privatisation was that the Sectors had been astute enough to retain some vehicles for seasonal peaks in traffic.
With today's chronic shortage of rolling stock what a far sighted policy that now appears.
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