First Group take over Virgin Trains (Franchise) West Coast Railway Manline

[arista]

Live on all media.

First Group will takeover this Franchise
in Dec.

Virgin have had problems.


http://news.sky.com/story/972646/virgin-loses-west-coast-rail-franchise


"It means an end to Virgin's 15 years of operating the line which has seen tilting, high-speed Pendolino trains serve such cities as Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow."

http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2012/8/15/187500/default/v1/8568338-1-1-522x293.jpg

[MTVN]

But will the fares still go up

[Marc]

Thing is consumers ONLY care about one thing, price.

Bring it down now.

[Kazanne]

Well anything is better than Virgin,they are really not that good.

[Marc]

First Great Western are pretty crappy.

[Kizzy]

This company had pre tax profits of 280 million last year....Of course fares will go up.

[arista]

But will the fares still go up


All Fares are going up
who ever owns the rail link

[Livia]

It'll still be a bloody shambles. The Government are ploughing so much of our cash into the railways still they may as well re-nationalise it, at least that way companies who ***** up the service (like Virgin) won't be able to pay themselves large salaries with bonuses when they should be investing any cash they make back into the service. It needs a total rethink. The only way they're ever going to get people out of their cars and on to public transport is to make it efficient and affordable and right now it's neither.

[billy123]

All Fares are going up
who ever owns the rail linkThe legacy of the milk snatcher lives on :bored:
Rail fares in the uk are ten times as high in the uk as the rest of europe.

[Livia]

The legacy of the milk snatcher lives on :bored:
Rail fares in the uk are ten times as high in the uk as the rest of europe.

Blaming previous governments isn't helpful. Insisting the current government does something to change the situation is surely the best way to go. People should make more of a fuss, write to their MP, insist that he or she take the issue up in parliament. Sadly though, not everyone even knows who their local MP is.

[arista]

Free WiFi
and No Cut Backs
the CEO on Ch4News just said