Virgin loses Cross Country rail

[MrRobin]

..like the train I take every day...crap.

Do you get the same train as me??!

My train this morning (if you can actually still call it a train) had 1 (one) carriage!!!! Hahaha how I laughed... until I had to smell several funky armpits at close range for 30 mins anyway...

[TheFaQQer]

If it is a susidised service then the company should not be taking any profit then?
If the whole thing is being funded by the public then maybe it should be a nationalised industry where any profits go back into the business.
Instead we see company after company take subsidies to run the network, but hike fares and pay large divvies and bonuses to to shareholders and executives.

This was one of the points put forward by Jon Cruddas in the recent deputy leader elections - if the state is subsidising the company, then there should be no profits paid to the shareholders. Sadly, he didn't get in.

[lilelvis2000]

This was one of the points put forward by Jon Cruddas in the recent deputy leader elections - if the state is subsidising the company, then there should be no profits paid to the shareholders. Sadly, he didn't get in.

Labour wouldn't want to offend it's buddies.

It would be interesting to find out how much National Express, Stagecoach et al. spend on lobbying. I'm sure we'd be quite shocked.

[TheFaQQer]

Labour wouldn't want to offend it's buddies.

It would be interesting to find out how much National Express, Stagecoach et al. spend on lobbying. I'm sure we'd be quite shocked.

No - but it could have been an interesting relationship between him and Gordo!

[lilelvis2000]

Do you get the same train as me??!

My train this morning (if you can actually still call it a train) had 1 (one) carriage!!!! Hahaha how I laughed... until I had to smell several funky armpits at close range for 30 mins anyway...

This morning there were two carriages..but it was the ancient bus-train type..which don't have enough power to travel our line unless there are two carriages. Completely covered in grime - I coudn't see out the window!

That's what we get for a foreign owned franchise which is subsidied at £6 per £2 of fare collected.