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Old 03-10-2012, 13:01   #83
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Re: Virgin Trains loses West Coast Mainline franchise (Update)

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
They certainly should, and hopefully the penalty structure will be addressed by the relevant independent review, which was announced earlier this morning.

Also, I see that almost as quickly as the Government suggested it was going to nationalise the WCML a la East Coast, it has now decided to give The Bearded One his greatest wish - an extension to his existing franchise while this is worked out.

That, to me, is the best solution, as the £40 million the government is already having to pay out to reimburse the franchise bidders for their trouble will not now be compounded by a lot of unnecessary debranding/rebranding costs.
As happens every time these people decide to give the impression of reform by renaming/rebranding govt. departments with same civil servants doing pretty much the same jobs in the same offices.
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