Mr. Gerry Murphy:

It would be necessary to take the carriages off the gauge. A buyer would incur costs in adapting them to another gauge system. The report suggested that consideration should be given to putting some of the fleet into long-term storage rather than short-term rolling storage in order to escape the maintenance and operation costs associated with moving them in and out of service until such time as their use could be justified. The cost of preparing secure storage and returning them to service would need to be considered as part of a business case. That is the current situation.