Greater Anglia is replacing each old train with a new one, meaning that the trains replaced are being returned to the owner.

Brett Chalkley, Greater Anglia‘s redelivery project manager, talks about how they plan to do this on the newest episode of Greater Anglia’s Life on Rails podcast.

The old trains will be returned to the lease company with branding removed, repairs to paint work and a thorough cleaning completed.

The timing of the changeover of these trains has to be exact due to the limited space to keep the extra trains.

The most recent episode of the podcast was partly recorded on the stage of Norwich Theatre Royal, where co-hosts Juliette Maxam and Lucy Wright, from Greater Anglia’s PR team, interview Stephen Crocker, chief executive and creative director of Norwich Theatre.

Stephen discusses his new plans for the Theatre in the coming years and talks about what they currently do.

The podcast is available from all the usual podcast platforms as well as greateranglia.co.uk/podcast.

“It’s a monumental task. It’s one of the largest fleet replacement programmes and everyone focuses on new trains coming in but it’s one of the largest old fleet replacements as well, so the project for redelivering over 1,000 vehicles to four owners is a sizable task and one which has to be managed in minute detail as well,” says Brett in the podcast.

“It’s about making the work that we do have different impact in a post pandemic world, and in a world that’s facing a cost-of-living crisis,” said Stephen.

“I don’t see the Arts as something that can be cut off or that can be abandoned. The Arts are more essential around our mental health and wellbeing, both individually and collectively, now than ever before.”

Juliette Maxam, Greater Anglia senior media and PR manager said: “We think this episode is another treasure trove of interesting facts about Greater Anglia, which we hope people will enjoy.

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