Virgin displaced from British rail market
Sep 17, 2019
2 minutes
By ‘Industry Witness’
Duncan McEvoy.
Keith Partlow
THE Department for Transport has awarded the contract for operating InterCity West Coast services to a consortium made up of First Group and Trenitalia, the Italian State Railway, which will start on December 8 this year.
The decision follows the disqualification of the Virgin/Stagecoach bid as a result of a dispute about staff pension liabilities.
The new operator is planning an
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