On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:07:59 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:42:19 +0100, Sam Holloway
wrote:
Does that mean, then, that the other Eastern franchises making up
'One' have been merged? I didn't think that was the case. I'm well
aware of how the same parent company operating many franchises has to
have some degree of separation between them, but I thought that was
still the case *within* One?

Depends on your definition of "merged". There is now only one franchise
and one contract to cover 2½ former franchises - therefore there has
been a merger in that sense.

Thanks, Paul - that was the question I didn't have the answer to. I
wasn't sure whether this was a group rebranding or whether the
franchises really had merged (as in one contract). I suppose that
gives them an excuse to keep the GN out of One. But still, from the
passengers' point of view, it's not a good way to go about. :-(

Sam
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Sam Holloway, Cambridge