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It just shows what happens when you divide a railway up.
We had exactly the same debacle here in the UK when Railtrack replaced BR.
It's called asset management, which is a posh way of saying that you know about the resources you have .....and clearly they don't.
How hard would it have been to run a gauging train over the routes that the new stock was to use ?
Here on the Thameslink route they strapped polystyrene sheets to the side of a unit which was potential replacement stock and worked it through the London tunnels. I'm told the sheets were pretty battered and gouged at the end, and so the 319s stayed with us.
It's really not rocket science, but this sort of pragmatism seems to beyond the capability of most modern executives.
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