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Originally Posted by swisstrains
All this chopping and changing is a strange way to run a railway  |
Completely agree. I don't like the new franchise ideas from the DfT. Giving companies more control over the network is not exactly competitive and we might all end up paying more than we should. I don't like the idea of one cmapny running both regional and intercity services (e.g. East Midlands franchise). It should be split up with local regional companies and intercity companies (I guess how it was like when privatisation began in 1995).
I have got used to Virgin and even tough I think there are serious crowding issues on the XC lines (especially ECML targeted services). If virgin had done a move like MML (4-5 car 222s) and had larger capacity voyagers (6/7 car voyagers?) then we would have a really good XC line.
But then, we can't exactly blame virgin for that. It's the DfT's fault for not allocating extra coaches for Virgin to use for voyagers. I hope Arriva are successful wit this but I think this is a big task, I can't really see Voyagers that are not in VT colours.