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Rail Franchising - The Future
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RE: Rail Franchising - The Future
The current franchise is due to expire on 9 December after which it is the government’s intention that Virgin remain as operator for a short period – expected to be between 9 and 13 months – while a competition is run for an interim franchise agreement. This interim agreement, which would be open to any bidders, will then run until the new long term West Coast franchise is ready to commence. Just because a government does something, doesn't mean it's legal. The DfT are absolutely desperate and face probably the worst incident of franchising since privatisation. They don't really have much choice other than to breach EU law, else the trains stop running and hundreds of staff have no employer. I suspect First Group et al will slaughter the DfT at court in the coming months. LATEST: Now hearing full WCML franchise may not be issued until 2018. Awaiting more info. |
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