The Anonymous Widower

Eversholt Joins Very Light Rail Consortium

The title of this post is the same as that of this article on Global Rail News.

• Eversholt Rail Group are a rolling stock operating company.
• The very light rail consortium is called Revolution VLR, which has an impressive list of backers, including several Councils and Universities, Network Rail and the Department of Transport.

One of my previous clients; Cummins are involved. I used to provide analysis software for their factory in Darlington.

• That factory, used to specialise in providing custom-built engines for smaller applications. So if say you wanted a diesel engine for a customised application, Cummins were the first place to go.
• The factory was also geared up to making small numbers of these engines.
• The company was very keen on getting quality right, which had actually led to my involvement.

I doubt Cummins would get involved in a project, that didn’t have a good chance of success.

I think the addition of Eversholt to the consortium could be beneficial.

Their traditional market is being eroded by new players looking for safe long-term investments funding some of the new trains.

But they have expertise in funding rail systems and Revelution VLR’s concept of very light rail running on a lightweight slab track could be something that they could fund, especially as a very light rail solution, must be cheaper than a traditional solution.

I shall be watching this consortium.

May 11, 2018 - Posted by AnonW | Finance, Transport | Eversholt Rail Group, Revolution VLR