Indeed it has, just before midnight tonight the government will be taking over operations due to national express not being able to afford to run the franchise. As I said in an earlier post when this came to light I noticed that the franchise had been doomed for a number of years, firstly there was the demise of GNER a few years ago, now national express East Coast has failed, the government is not taking over for 18 months, this could also fail, though it could succeed and at the most even renationalise the railways, the rebirth of British Rail in a way, but for now it’s just one franchise, the East Coast Main Line is still maintained by Network Rail (who I now call Network Evil because of the maintenance work carried out between Huddersfield and Stalybridge in September) so it’s not fully a single-line British Rail but it’s as good as, maybe it’s time to renationalise the railways… but we’ll see what happens there
Well that’s it for now on the end of national express East Coast, but before you depart I found this link on BBC News to do with this whole thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8358100.stm
If I find out further information on this, I shall post with more
Happy Journeys on whatever runs the railways
