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Old Dec 10, 2015 | 2:44 am
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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....
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