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Old September 9th 17, 01:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Go-Ahead profits hit by Southern strife
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:32:01
on Fri, 8 Sep 2017, remarked:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...s-go-ahead-pro
fits-9rrtq36j3?shareToken=6a84a9614d3b9d2365fba1b139b66 55e

"It forecast that margins would reach up to 1.5 per cent."

From an orderly queue to take on this vastly lucrative business!

The DfT might struggle to find any bidders for SN when the
franchise is next tendered. It's become a real poisoned chalice.

Isn't that the unions' objective, to get the franchise handed to DOR,
nationalisation by the back door?

It's already nationalised by the back door - DfT is in charge and Govia
just run the trains for a fixed fee.

Very little would change if the Govia senior managers were replaced by
DOR senior managers (where would the latter come from, anyway)?

Govia, presumably, apart from one or two figureheads?

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