Thread: Virgin in talks on West Coast route contract extension
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Old 02-10-2012, 11:38 PM #1
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Thumbs up Virgin in talks on West Coast route contract extension
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19809717

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The bidding process for the West Coast Main Line rail franchise is to be re-run after the government admitted getting its figures seriously wrong.

The contract to run services on the line - one of Britain's busiest - was awarded to FirstGroup in August.

That decision was challenged in the courts by Virgin Trains, which lost out.

Now civil servants have found significant mistakes in the way they calculated the risks for each bid.
Justice for that nice Mr Branson .....
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