Could there be a return to the ‘Big Four’?
Jan 15, 2019
3 minutes
By ‘Industry Witness’
Aubrey Evans
John Hales
THE Williams Review of the rail industry has become mired in intense lobbying from a generation of past experts about the future organisation of the network.
Those who never wanted or understood the need for the changes that Privatisation brought are pressing for a return to the days of the 1923 Grouping, when the ‘Big Four’ LMS, LNER, GWR, and Southern Railway companies were formed. It is recognised, however, that the reality of devolved Government is likely to result in separate organisations for Scotland, Wales, London and
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