Railway Renationalisation

[TonyGosling]

From The Times
January 4, 2008

Railways to sack private engineers

Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent

Network Rail is to take another step towards renationalisation by stripping its contractors of responsibility for some key upgrades and taking much of the work in-house.

More than 250,000 passengers had journeys disrupted by the four-day overrun at Rugby and a similar 24-hour stoppage at Liver-pool Street station in London after Network Rail admitted that it was caught by surprise when projects overran badly over Christmas..........
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