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Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

New trains on the DLR £61million over budget and facing nine-month delay

The £880 million introduction of new air-conditioned trains on the Docklands Light Railway has been delayed and is running £61 million over budget.

Transport for London had hoped to start introducing the walk-through trains by April, increasing capacity and frequency on the network that carries 99 million passengers a year across south and east London.

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