Exactly its some crazy thinking, for example the class 313s were meant to be withdrawn in September and then someone at the Dft decided they would continue to may at the last minute as they had no replacements. The problem being that they told the supplier for spare parts to not bother making...
Yes that would have helped but you’ve also got to take into account that the people have control over these things are complete morons and just do illogical things because it saves 20p in the short term. The problem is they started implementing the process to head towards the GB Rail model...