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Jack Taylor wrote:
wrote:

So you're saying that HEX is a company that operates trains, but it's
not a train operating company...?

It is a train operating company (a company that runs additional
trains on the national network). It is not a Train Operating Company
(a company that has bought the franchise to operate a specified set
of services within a geographical area, according to DfT minimum
service requirements), the successors to the BR Train Operating Units.

And does the average passenger know or care whether a train is
"franchised" or "additional"? Of course not. It's a train. There's
probably a company somwhere that operates it. That's all that matters to
us. The rest is just silly red tape behind the scenes somewhere. The
fact that this comapny signed form A while that company signed from B
shouldn't be important to us.

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