National Express lose East Anglia Franchise

flare · November 26th, 2009, 11:18 AM

Lord Ardonis has confirmed that Nat Ex will be stripped of their East Anglia franchise from March 2011.

SO in the space of the year C2C, ICEC and East Anglia will all come up......busy times!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ars-early.html

dinp · November 28th, 2009, 02:34 PM

Not to mention them losing the Midland Mainline contract back in 2007(?) when Stagecoach won it - now operating as East Midlands Trains.

stimarco · November 28th, 2009, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flare

Lord Ardonis has confirmed that Nat Ex will be stripped of their East Anglia franchise from March 2011.

SO in the space of the year C2C, ICEC and East Anglia will all come up......busy times!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ars-early.html

This is misleading, and very poor reporting. The East Anglia franchise was already set to expire in March 2011. There is an option to extend the franchise at the discretion of the government, but this is the case for most franchises. Adonis has merely informed National Express that franchise extension isn't going to happen.

This isn't "stripping" a damned thing; I doubt National Express were expecting Lord Adonis to be nice to them after they handed back the keys to their East Coast franchise.

WatcherZero · November 28th, 2009, 07:56 PM

It is a way of punishing them without extra cost to the taxpayer of ending the franchise early.

OperateOnMe · December 6th, 2009, 10:10 PM

Excellant news for the taxpayers that our goverment has got some balls from somewhere

Bad news for NationalExpress who lose a very lucrative profit-making line, considering they dropped the other line because they became profit-mad-capitalists wanting no responsibility, seems almost like poetic justice but actually just fair and sensible (hence I'm suprised)

November 26th, 2009, 11:18 AM	#1
flare Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The City of London Posts: 394	National Express lose East Anglia Franchise Lord Ardonis has confirmed that Nat Ex will be stripped of their East Anglia franchise from March 2011. SO in the space of the year C2C, ICEC and East Anglia will all come up......busy times!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ars-early.html

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November 28th, 2009, 07:56 PM	#4
WatcherZero Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2,392	It is a way of punishing them without extra cost to the taxpayer of ending the franchise early.

December 6th, 2009, 10:10 PM	#5
OperateOnMe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Greater Birmingham (London) Posts: 240	Excellant news for the taxpayers that our goverment has got some balls from somewhere Bad news for NationalExpress who lose a very lucrative profit-making line, considering they dropped the other line because they became profit-mad-capitalists wanting no responsibility, seems almost like poetic justice but actually just fair and sensible (hence I'm suprised)