Virgin have the London to Liverpool line taken from them.
The man himself sums it up better than I why the fact they were outbid counts for little.
As I travelled extensively on rail a couple of years ago, bar a couple of the Scottish based smaller ones, which were on par, no one comes close to the standards virgin achieves.
The same thing happened over the lottery, he wanted to operate as non profit & give more to charity, but less to the government, & was outbid by an American company.
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/on-virgin-trains
The man himself sums it up better than I why the fact they were outbid counts for little.
As I travelled extensively on rail a couple of years ago, bar a couple of the Scottish based smaller ones, which were on par, no one comes close to the standards virgin achieves.
The same thing happened over the lottery, he wanted to operate as non profit & give more to charity, but less to the government, & was outbid by an American company.
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/on-virgin-trains
