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1 week ago
Talk about cherry picking. Virgin Trains & Stagecoach Bus help themselves to £51.2 million profits from our West Coast mainline, while walking away from running the East Coast. We’re not going to let them get away with it! Our CrowdJustice action continues behind the scenes: crowdjustice.com/case/eastcoast ...
West Coast rail firms net £51.2m in dividends
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Despite walking away from another franchise, Virgin Trains and Stagecoach shared £51.2m in dividends.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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A decent chap young Branson, isn't that a lovely smile? And apparently much misunderstood. You thought he had a trillion offshore? Never.! It's more like ten billion; So he's only stolen a few thousand doctors and nurses from the NHS. Nothing really. A decent lad. I just wish he lived next door.
Lives on an a tropical Island and as an expat pays no UK income tax but does this to the UK taxpayer..at the same time as ardently campaigning to scupper Brexit and remain in the EU...think about it, why would he do that? Even the Corbynista's must realise that you cant re-nationalise the railways whilst we're still in the EU..
This is the whole point about privatisation sadly, enabling maximum private profit alongside minimal service provision, which gives the most money to extract for the wealthy*. *and given public funding is involved, this is literal taxpayer money sent directly to private profit.
I went on a train for the first time in a year on may to goto the airport. Treated myself to a first class ticket. Then was told the train was cancelled had to change at Manchester. No first class carriage and this was in the afternoon. Good forbid what's it's like during rush hours
Privatise profit, socialise loss. It's the same old Tory story.
Not much is that story tells the whole truth. The ECML makes a profit so the tax payer isn't bailing it out. Over bidding was the problem and profits promised didn't materialise. And that over bidding was based on information supplied by the DFT which was wrong. And profits are still going to private companies who are still running ECML when all that profit belongs to the tax payer.
Thats typical of Branson he always thinks of himself and nobody else .....never liked the man . .he is sneaky. .. Unlike Alan Sugar who gives it to you straight.
I used to admire Mr Branson in his early days as a businessman - not any more - he has evolved into a money obsessed hypocrate.
They won’t suspend the West Coast franchise, because it’s the DFT, that messed up the bidding, and why 3 key members were given the bullet,and they gave the franchise back to Virgin/Stagecoach
Thats 51 million that would have gone to the treasury and then to the NHS, schools, police, mental health services, pensions and so on.
38 Degrees This and other Services are why we should reclaim all those that were originally British and make them work for this Country; reinvesting the profits. Brexit (hopefully without a deal) is what we need.
Parasites - it's basically the taxpayers' subsidy to the railways they're taking
Needs locking! up his companies daily rob people? virgin media ought to be banned along with the rest of his rip offs
Money that should have gone back into the railways. The same with utilities should all come back into public ownership.
He should lose the franchise. How can he run the west cost after having the east coast taken off him?
It's like the bankers, Carillion, and all other big business, especially when they are working for the public sector. They take the cash and run. It's the taxpayer who ends up supporting the wreckage they leave behind.
Public franchises and outsourcing are all about siphoning public money into private pockets. In rail, civil engineering, health, council services, you name it.
Last time I had occasion to use the WCML (Edinburgh-Preston) I made sure to travel TPX. It is actually possible to travel the length of the WCML (with one or two changes) without using a Stagevirge train.
Perhaps we should wish Richard Branson every success with his space programme, in the hope that he will go somewhere off the planet and reside somewhere else - forever!
Why is there a safety net for these speculators? That's like sitting down at a poker table and putting a veto on all hands that you don't win. Get the infrastructure back into state hands where necessity comes before profit.
Yet more rubbish from the Biased Bullshit Corporation deliberately worded to keep the pot stirred by everyone gullible enough to believe it. I bet all those getting 5% tax free interest (or whatever the current rates are) in their ISAs don’t think it wrong, so why should it be wrong for these companies to get a return on their investment? Nothing to do with ‘helping themselves.’
We must remember and take all these carpetbaggers money that they made out of these supposed ventures.
Right then this barsteward can use this 51 million to put into the NHS and not put it into his back pocket, in my opinion he owes the NHS big time!!!!!
He originally wanted to run an all PendoVoyager railway. But those were nothing more than a rocket ship folly.
I would have them back tomorrow, lner are a joke, prices went up straight away and lots of cancelled trains Leeds to London.
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1 week ago
‘When it’s more often than not cheaper to fly or get a coach from south to north England you know there’s a problem with the railway system’ says Bring Back British Rail Supporter Nancy Smith, Ipswich. Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
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£65 to fly to Glasgow and back from Stansted, by rail with 2 changes and 6 hour journey with no guaranteed seat
When it's cheaper per mile to commute in a 17 mpg classic GT car than take any kind of public transport, it's easy to see why no one bothers. The whole system is broken. I'm fortunate to be able to just about afford said car, for those who can't afford to buy and tax and insure a vehicle, they're stuck spending twice what an average hatchback would use in fuel for the same journey. Yes, you can pre book and buy a ticket from an out of the way station on a laborious route and get it cheap but that's not viable for daily usage. But the French and Germans are making a mint out of us and keeping certain people who work in a certain building in Westminster very popular.
Road transport is massively subsidised. Coach operators do not pay the real cost of the network they drive on - roads. This is undeniable. Secondary costs of a transport network that results in the death and injury of thousands of people a year is almost immeasurably high. A single road "accident" costs taxpayers tens of thousands, often more than a million. Similar argument follows for airways and road freight.
British Rail wasn't bad because it was nationalised. It was bad because it was badly run. Privatised rail isn't bad because it's private. It's bad because ir's badly run. Hmmm, there is a common theme emerging here.
I do agree with bringing back British Rail. However, if I time my ticket buying right. I can get from Leeds to London for £14 each way. Just saying like, I'm pretty sure that's cheaper than coach or flying. I do it regularly, you just have to be canny and plan ahead.
Yes and east / west £248 return from S Wales to London with no other quick option. It is disgusting.
Its cheaper because its cheaper, railways are expensive, get over it.
Not just the prices as I am able to use a railcard and use off peak advance tickets 🎫 eg Newcastle to York and back for less than £10 but the fact 2 trains 🚞 were cancelled 🙄 The last few months have been appalling for reliability - time to ditch the out of touch Mr Grayling and get some real people in charge ❤️
When it is the government ministers and beaurocrats who decide what competition means, and you-and-me the punter have little choice on those routes, then there is no free-market, just legalised corruption!
Just booked return flights to Spain in December for £86 for 2 people. Off peak return rail fare, two people, Darlington to London £136.Ridiculous or what??? Not everyone can book 12 weeks in advance to get vaguely reasonably priced tickets.
I took coach+plane Swindon to Aberdeen, 500 miles, less than £100. Train was similar cost- just to get me to Heathrow. GWR is a sick joke.
Actually, it may be worse than that. As Joe Furness proved last year, it’s actually cheaper to fly from Newcastle to Spain, hire a car for a spot of sightseeing, and then fly to London, *than it is to get the train from Newcastle to London*. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/30/student-flies-london-via-spain-cheaper-train/
Was there not some student that found it was cheaper to fly to Scotland via Holland a few years back?
also cheaper & quicker to get to newquay from tunbridge wells, by flying from gatwick.
More than double the cost of the coach from Dover to Heathrow if you have Senior discounts. Not significantly quicker either.
mind you, i was looking for a flight to BHM from Teesside or NCL. snip at £365 via amsterdam, and 6½ hrs.
Crazy but the morons who ruined the rail service are now n power may and her vile tory scum need eradicating the sooner the better
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Bring Back British Rail shared Nye Bevan News's video.
2 weeks ago
This Spitting Image sketch from the early 1990s foresees all the failures of rail privatisation. It's time to admit our mistakes, cut our losses and Bring Back British Rail! Join the campaign at bringbackbritishrail.org
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"Down go the standards, up go the fares
and only fat bastards will soon own the shares.
Out go the regions, the unprofitable routes
just leaving commuter trains crammed full of suits.
The private contractors making their pitch,
the Tory supporters all making it rich
the bankers, the brokers, the PR men too,
the only one who will lose out is you..." ...
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And who was to blame between 97 and 2010.
they was so right i loved spitting image wasn’t allowed to watch it 😂
They got it so right!
Is that Vincent price doing the narration?😂😂
Immediately prior to privatisation BR had sorted out the decades of the mismanagement of Beeching etc. All it needed was further re-investment to cope with the projected increase of traffic that the Conservatives were unwilling to make in a PUBLIC service for the PUBLIC, their voters 🙂
I think that this is probably 1980s, but it was absolutely spot on in its predictions.
Maggie did a lot of damage to the UK's industries but never wanted to privatize the railways. Blame John Major for that. Had such little support in Parliament I believe, and happy to be corrected if wrong, that the Bill only went through with the support of Northern Ireland politicians who were promised that the NI railways would never be privatized.
Laugh? Cry? Get angry? Probably all three ….
Ooh, well dug out Thank you for this timely reminder
Thatcher of course drew back from railway privatisation. John Major did the dirty work (gleefully followed up by New Labour!)
This was before privatisation happened, yet they got all these predictions right, even if this was a satire of the British Rail commercial at the time!.
Sadly prophetic. Thatcher & her cronies did their best to ruin public services and utilities.
Bit of a naff ending as Maggie was against rail privatisation.
The last line of the poem couldn't have said it better! 😁 Btw the voice over sounds like that guy from Hawkwind.
First shown in 1989. NHS will be next...
Don't forget to tell Sid how it's gone belly up.
No wonder it was axed!
Uncanny.
Spot on,
www.blythpower.co.uk/redwed/lyrics/enemy.htm
our mistakes??
So true
Keith Vanrhyn you've been saying this for years!!
Philip Locke ain’t that the truth
Steven Williams since you liked spitting image...
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Bring Back British Rail shared Get Glasgow Moving's photo.
3 weeks ago
Great to see momentum building in Scotland for publicly-owned buses, as The Scottish Parliament scrutinises their new Transport Bill. Join the Get Glasgow Moving campaign for updates: you.38degrees.org.uk/p/getglasgowmovingGreat coverage of our Protest for publicly-owned buses for Scotland at The Scottish Parliament in today’s Evening Times. We submitted our 38 Degrees petition signed by 10,184 people to the Committee scrutinising the new Transport Bill. It’s not to late to join us here: you.38degrees.org.uk/p/getglasgowmoving ...
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Best of luck, just look at road traffic now, its clear we need more people not less using buses (and trains). Public transport has got dearer whilst private travel has got cheaper, its a scandal.
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Bring Back British Rail
3 weeks ago
Arriva Rail are owned by the German state-run Deutsche Bahn. They profit from vast swathes of our railways, operating as: Northern, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry trains and Arriva Trains Wales. They also run the London Overground as 'Arriva Rail London'. Now they want to close 51 ticket offices across the Overground network to reduce costs. Sign this petition to say no! We need railways run for people not profit. ...
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Arrival Rail London and Transport for London have recently launched a public consultation on their regressive plans to close 51 ticket offices on the London Overground Network. www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/news/view?id=715&x[0]=news/list (Consultation closing date 11th October) Staffed ticket...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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The German railways infrastructure management makes our privatisation or publicly owned network look incompetent. Both the French and Germans have invested heavily in their own transport links, trains and public services. There rail network is superb. Now think about why the UK government have sold out to the private sector. From April 2019 a national coalition for transport is going to be put together and an under handed deal is going to be struck between SNCF and the Deutschebahn to run the UK railways. DB have been in talks with the UK transport minister for months.
but what about all the non-working machines there always seem to be at any station you go to?suppose you need to ask a question?
Would they dare to try this at home and what would the German commuter do if they tried?
That's the irony of so-called rail privatisation. It means that the railways can be owned by any state except the British state.
Proposals such as this by the TOCs show how arrogant and profit obsessed they are, even in the face of calls for an investigation into our broken rail industry by the useless Grayling. It infuriates me that despite the excessive profits these cowboys make, they still feel the need to "cut costs", to the detriment of the very people they are already ripping off. One has to hope that the so-called Mayor Of London will intervene here, but I very much doubt it - it would appear that the Barons who run our laughable "Rail Network" have far more control over it than our Government does. In view of current public opinion, what are they so scared of?
Keep guards on Northern Railways
And they said a state owned railway would be bad. Just not the British state, apparently :D
Return all rail operators back to public. Ownership,the government to appoint an independant rail management board to be accountable to the appointed Transport minister. TFL should run the busses in Londonnot all different contractors such as arriva or GO Ahead,should have contracts revoked,TFL to nominate an independent board of directors senior management etc.should be answerable and accountable to TFL . As should London underground ..just a thought ! 😎
We need an actual human being available to help us. Maybe the younger 'on line, computer savvy' can cope with screens and buttons but us older people, and there are a lot of us, need face to face help.
Signed the petition. If these ticket offices get closed for good, this will result in job losses. And it's bad enough as it is in this country right now! Companies going out of business and all the rest! What hope have the youth of today got!? 😥
Extremely generous of the British taxpayer to subsidise Germany, they need all the help they can get.
Those ‘taking back control’ patriotic Tories and their Great British values. Makes ya feel all warm inside.
Although Arriva is owned by the German government London Overground is infact influenced by Transport For London and may be only following their orders due to the large amount of debt TFL are in. Futher more Chiltern Railways is a very good operation with a unique franchise agreement that has a longer period than just the normal 5 years so the operator has invested in the long term viability of the line may be something overlooked by most.
I've just tried to buy a ticket from Highams Park to Gatwick, using a Freedom Pass and an Elderly Person's Travel card. It turns out this is only possible using a manned ticket office. The machine will only issue me a full price ticket.. roughly three times what I should be paying!
This is all due to our treacherous MPs. Let's all remember this and other abuses of us people at General Election time.
They are in business to make money, simple as that, if closing them makes them money ee cant complain, if it was cost effectuve to keep them open then they would.
They don't have ATW any more having not re-applied, XCountry is up for re-letting soon, suspicion is that they won't win that! Closing booking offices on the overground is reasnoble anyway, London Underground have done this themselves, and with contactless who needs tickets?
Renationalise immediately
There is a good piece in the last edition of RAIL(l think) about ‘subsidising foreign state owned railways’ It basically said it’s rubbish.
The whole industry is going to be smart ticketed within the next few years. Phones and tvms are going to replace the booking office. It's a sorry state of affairs.
When London Overground was originally set up, stations were refurbished (remember some of the graffiti covered Silverlink horrors!) and re-staffed as feedback from the public was that they felt safer with staff on the stations. Sadly it looks like it's going full circle due to funding issues.
Mark Collins - absolutely. These closures were an option in the contract TfL have with ARL, and it is TfL who is simply exercising it. TfL's poor finances are a huge issue, and the ways it is being exploited and worsened by the government as a way to get at the Mayor politically is dreadful. But a separate issue to renationalisation.
that may be so, but they're cheaper than Hull Trains, and that definitely needs looking at.
You forgot Grand Central.
they want automated machines
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