"Recliner" wrote in message
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/troubled-southern-should-hand-over-services-st3ls9frk

Extract:

A suppressed report into a series of problems at Britain’s biggest rail
operator will call for the company to be cut back, The Times has learnt.

The review of Southern Rail will suggest moving some services to other
operators to force its parent company to focus on London commuter routes.

It will stop far short of demanding the full break-up or renationalisation
of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) but acknowledge that “practical steps”
must be taken to reduce the size and scope of the franchise.


well if Southern is too big then so are South East and South West

they both contain the same mix of inner suburban metro lines and longer
distance lines, in a very similar quantity

And separating the operator of these doesn't remove the problems of trying
to run both on the same tracks, but it will remove the possibility of adding
station stops on the longer distance trains to supplement those provided by
the metro.

I presume that the metro stock is different so there would be no changes in
the fleet allocation for each type

tim