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Go Via get West Midlands franchise
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:50:21 +0100, Michael Hoffman
wrote: Paul Corfield wrote: http://www.londonmidland.com/index.html is the new website for the winning company and has details of what will be done in the franchise. How exiting! They are going to introduce "sub-brands!" Truly they understand what is important to the common passenger. To be fair it is no different to the current policy used by Silverlink with respect to "metro" and "county". I actually think the provision of new Desiros and new diesels is a good step forward. From comments from others the Desiros seem to be decent trains and provided there are no nonsenses with the timetable (in which case blame the DfT) then this doesn't seem a bad deal to me. If the transfer of Metro services to TfL allows the management team to concentrate on running the core services at least as well as now, and hopefully better, then that should also be a plus. Silverlink don't seem to attract much by way of bad press these days which tends to suggest the service simply works well. The real test is whether they can get the West Midlands local services up to scratch and keep them there. There seems to be little enthusiasm for Central Trains' performance and huge complaints about overcrowding and reliability. My very limited experience of WM local services has not been too bad at all to be fair but then I don't have to use them every day. -- Paul C Admits to working for London Underground! |
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