West Coast train contract given to private sector again
A Virgin train passes some rusting track at the side of the West Coast line near Abington, in August 2012
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TRAINS on the InterCity West Coast route will not be nationalised after the government awarded the contract to yet another private company.
Italian-Scottish firm First Trenitalia will take over from Richard Branson’s Virgin Trains on the West Coast Main Line from London to Glasgow on December 8.
The move means that more than three-quarters of rail franchises in Britain will be at least partly owned by foreign states or businesses.
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