On 19 Jun, 14:45, Roland Perry wrote:
In message . com, at
03:52:52 on Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Boltar remarked:

The winner of the London Overground concession is MTR Laing according

Sounds like a sensible decision. Why pick people who already have
years of experience running railways when you can pick a building
firm.

But isn't Laing Rail actually Chiltern, and the construction business
was sold off years ago.

Certainly becoming unusual for a rail franchise not to be awarded to a
bus company.

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gordon