Posted on 01/30/2020 6:51:34 AM PST by Cronos
Beleaguered Northern Rail could be renationalised as early as this week after running into severe financial difficulties.
The franchise's operator Arriva is expected to hand back control to the Government this week.
Northern Rail, which stretches from Newcastle and Hull in the east to Liverpool, Blackpool and Carlisle in the west, has been dragged down by strikes, delays and the botched introduction of a new timetable.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said earlier this month that the service offered by the operator, which carries 101million passengers per year, was 'completely unacceptable'. He promised that he would make a decision over what to do with the franchise by the end of January.
..If Northern is taken back under public control, it would be the second failed franchise to be renationalised in less than two years. In 2018, control of the East Coast line was taken back from Virgin and Stagecoach by Mr Shapps' predecessor Chris Grayling.
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The privatization failed - I don't have all the reasons why, you'll need to look it up for yourself.
Now they are renationalizing it all
A problem with strikes? That will certainly stop when all the staff are government employees! ROTFL!
They’ll need an efficient train system to haul dhimis off to the concentration camps when Moslems become the majority.
London’s Mayor Khan approves.
The rail freight business in the UK is doing OK, and is run by private companies, such as Deutsche Bahn and Genesee and Wyoming. The passenger business is subsidized by the UK government, who owns the actual tracks
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