Sentences with phrase «coast rail franchise»

700 million new generation very high speed train fleet and the West Coast Rail franchise and a number of challenges in the Healthcare, Technology and Environmental sectors.

Continue reading «John Bercow and Theresa Villiers blast Government after Commons is last to hear of nationalisation of East Coast Rail Franchise»»

For some it's fear of what further cuts could do, for example damaging growth in the last two years before an election or leading to costly mistakes like the West Coast rail franchise debacle.

But as well as Brexit, he also called the decision to end the East Coast rail franchise three years early a mistake.

On the publicly run East Coast rail franchise, seventy - nine per cent of passengers are satisfied that there is sufficient room on trains, compared to an average of 67 % across all rail lines.

However, I would have been obliged to resign from the commission at this point anyway because of the transport secretary's indefensible decision to bail out the Stagecoach / Virgin East Coast rail franchise.

In his resignation letter, he wrote that, as well as Brexit, the recent decision to end the InterCity East Coast rail franchise three years early, at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds, would also have forced him to quit.

Adonis said he would have felt compelled to step down anyway over the transport secretary's decision to bail out Stagecoach and Virgin on the East Coast rail franchise.

Not exact matches

The abandoned west coast main line rail franchise could be followed by the scrapping of the Department for Transport's controversial planned high speed rail network linking London with Birmingham, its opponents are hoping.

The InterCity West Coast franchise was up for renewal in 2012, with Abellio, FirstGroup, Keolis / SNCF and Virgin Rail competing for the contract.

That's why it's right to put the East Coast Mainline back in private hands Main From Tony Lodge: Why new rail franchises must not become new railopolies»

Acting for interested parties in the West Coast Judicial Review, an attempted challenge to UK franchising by the Rail Unions and by Enfield borough Council against the Department for Transport.