ShadowKnight
Member
Forgive me if this has been discussed previously.
I have been thinking about when eventually the GCR bridge project is complete with track from Leicester to Nottingham, has there been any thought put to or plans made to how the unified railway will operate day to day or organisationally be structured.
I am not too familiar with either GCR at the moment however with some research online there seems to be some duplication with each side having their own operating/volunteer groups and own charitable trusts owning the infrastructure.
How much of this would change when a merger occurs? Would they merge as one with preference from one railway over the other? Or would it be more like two operators interfacing with eachother?
I can only think of something similar is the FR and WHR railways unifying and merging, although it seemed already that the WHR was more of a subsidiary or ther FR to put it into crude terms.
I am happy to be corrected with anything said above, I am mostly interested in understanding what may happen.
I have been thinking about when eventually the GCR bridge project is complete with track from Leicester to Nottingham, has there been any thought put to or plans made to how the unified railway will operate day to day or organisationally be structured.
I am not too familiar with either GCR at the moment however with some research online there seems to be some duplication with each side having their own operating/volunteer groups and own charitable trusts owning the infrastructure.
How much of this would change when a merger occurs? Would they merge as one with preference from one railway over the other? Or would it be more like two operators interfacing with eachother?
I can only think of something similar is the FR and WHR railways unifying and merging, although it seemed already that the WHR was more of a subsidiary or ther FR to put it into crude terms.
I am happy to be corrected with anything said above, I am mostly interested in understanding what may happen.