Extracts from Lords question for short debate on Railways: Reliability - Oct 31
Wednesday, 1 November 2017 08:01
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Lord Patten (Con):...There is no solution to this sort of thing
from HMG. I am sorry to land these thoughts with my noble friend in
her early outings on the Front Bench. The franchise was switched
from the boringly named old South West Trains to the new, exciting
and snappily named south western Railway just last month.
I went into it in some detail and it turns out to be a Sino-British
outfit, promising in its franchise bid if successful, among much
else, “improved service...Request free
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