Virgin Trains East Coast

more tax money down the pan

It's another fine mess.

As I understand it Stagecoach (who seem to be the actual operators under the Virgin flag) put in what turns out to be too lower a bid for the franchise on the understanding that there would be upgrades to the line, which haven't taken place, so the situation isn't entirely black and white, although in my opinion it's a pretty dark shade of grey.

Presumably the service will continue to run unperturbed to the casual observer and more importantly, passenger, as it did last time this happened when LNER went belly up. I hope so as I have tickets to travel to London on the line in the next couple of weeks!

Hopefully the only change we'll notice is when they waste a load of money repainting the rolling stock at our expense! Again!

Ian

and every time they have it under direct government control it generates piles of cash (twice recently). watch this space

Stagecoach paid more to the government in 2 years than DOR did altogether. Sounds like overpaying to me ...

So, GNER, NXEC, DOR, VTEC and now DOR (again).

Someone must have put a curse on that line. Which is apt as you can carbon date the first two Harry Potter films as there are GNER trains at London Kings Cross.