Originally Posted by
kanderson1965
Oh joy and bliss, First Transpennine Express has somehow mananaged to renew their franchise. seven more years of being in the "Northern Poorhouse".
I was thinking First were clearly greasing some wheels somewhere with their percentage of the uk rail network (65% at one point)? But they lost their original franchise, of Scotrail, didn't they?
Then again the fully deutsche bahn owned Arriva seem to be making a lot of progress, worst trains I've been on in the uk....