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Rail Franchising - The Future
RE: Rail Franchising - The Future
(15/10/2012 05:50)wirralbus Wrote:  If im being honest the management of DOR East Coast should be asked to look at moving across to West Coast and slowly replace them at East Coast as and when .

There must be some emergency powers that were built into the Railway Act for this so called nuclear moment in the rail franchising era.

Railways Act 1993/2005 only allows DOR explicitly to take over as an Operator of Last Resort, (i.e. not allow Virgin to be the OLR). There is no provision if the OLR is unavailable. The staff would not be employed by anyone for starters.

To do otherwise would have made the Railways Act 2005 non-EU compliant.

I'm not too sure why the DOR EC board can't just take on the WC... same policies, suppliers, same uniform, branding etc...
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