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A Northern Class 195 crosses Arnside Viaduct in Cumbria on February 27. Northern, one of the operators under DfT control, cancelled more than 2,500 services in Period 3 (May 26-June 22), owing to train crew shortages. ALAMY.

Two of Britain’s train operating companies are living on borrowed time.

Greater Anglia and West Midlands Trains have contracts that contain core term expiry dates of September 15 2024. To bring them into the public sector, Labour Transport Secretary Louise Haigh need only serve an expiry notice that gives at least three reporting periods’ warning. Each reporting period is 28 days, so that makes 84 days.




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