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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Err no I'm not, I'm going on as if Branson or who ever has broken the law and if it's found that they have then they should be punished, that's all that's been done, just a little bit of illegal activity, possibly
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Or the good old days of a several months ago when a nationalised railway was making money for the country and since it's been private fares have gone up twice, cheap ticket use has been altered for the worse and staff cut
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Directly Operated Railways (DOR) had a remit to keep the service ticking over until a new private operator could be found. No money was being set aside for innovation or investment. Theirs was a temporary business model, unsustainable in the long term.
Virgin, however, has a strategy to develop the line and to invest in it. That may require the line's customers to pay more.
In time, we will see how well Virgin runs the line and how well used it is. Only then will we see whether DOR's management of the line was as good as nostalgic lefties have been claiming.