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Department Of Transport

Sheffield Tram-Train Review

R&DCPV 73200000
Value£30k
Deadline27 Jun 2018
Published19 Dec 2018
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 19 Dec 2018ClosedCloses 27 Jun 2018
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The brief

An independent review of the Sheffield Tram-Train project was requested of DFT officials the 15 December 2017 Public Accounts Committee report into the project following the 4 July 2017 investigation published by the National Audit Office.

The project has seem a cumulative increase in costs of over 400% to £75.1 million against the original budget of £15 million agreed in May 2012.

It has also experienced a delay of 2.5 years.

As a pilot project with the purpose of testing the issues, costs and opportunities of introducing the tram-train concept to the UK, the PAC asked DFT and Network Rail officials what long-term strategic lessons have been learnt from this.

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