Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Virgin Trains lose Bid - 15th August 2012

The Virgin trains business is not to retain its west coast main line route the job has been given to first group the UKs largest rail operator and will be due to take over the services in December.
There are fears however from the union and rail campaigners that there will be fare rises and job cuts, First group are promising better services and new trains, stagecoach who have a 49% interest in virgin rail said the reason for them not getting the contract was that First Group were going to pay higher payment to the department of transport.

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