Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Just been on BBC News, the government is to re-run the competition.
Having been a somewhat avid reader of this thread since inception, plus the reading of some good articles in the October 2012 issue of Modern Railways about the current debacle that has been the outcome of this sorry affair, nothing now surprises me that concerns the franchise arrangements of the WCML.
I was somewhat intrigued by the magazine comments about WCML areas south of Rugby not being the recipient of the same infrastructural benefits that accrue north of that location as part of financial stringencies to keep upgrading costs down in the past, which now lead to specific areas of speed reduction at certain locations.