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Tom Anderson · July 9th 07, 05:18 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, wrote:

On 22 Jun, 13:10, " wrote:
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 LondonOvergroundconcession 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.

Perhaps I spoke to soon. Shouldn't be any surprise that the
consolidation of the rail operating industry into four or so big players
is progressing apace

YWell, with Britain's rail network divided between the Great Western,
London, Midland and Scottish, London and North Eastern and Southern
railways, we should see considerably greater efficiency.

Oh, hang on, wrong century ...

tom

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