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Jack Taylor

wrote:

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.

Well blame British Rail for the daft terminology. Many people said at the
time that renaming Train Operating Units (of BR) into Train Operating
Companies would cause confusion. The problem now is there is a specific
legal distinction between a toc and a TOC.