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Peter   31/07/2012 at 10:14

Why does everyone go to Bob Crow for a quote on every rail news story? You know what he will say, and as usual it's a totally biased misrepresentation of the facts. First did not "dodge £800m in payments back to the taxpayer", they exercised their contractual right to stop paying the government while making a loss. If Bob Crow was really worried about the taxpayer he'd get out of his subsidised housing, that he clearly doesn't need on his £150k salary.

Mikeb   31/07/2012 at 12:41

If First Group are successful, all Pendolinos and Voyagers will have to be taken out of service over a period of time for changes into First's corporate livery - both exterior and interior. How much will this cost and who will pay?

Andy158   08/08/2012 at 02:30

I really hope First don't win. After reading what they did to onboard services at Great Western, and the cramming in of additional seats with the removal of tables, I think I'd go back to flying or driving down. Just look what Arriva have done with crosscountry.

Sartinderd   13/08/2012 at 20:21

I work for Great Wstern, a dreadfull, unprofessonal company, with senior management totally incompetent, massive in house bitching and fighting, appalling staff rooms, zero value for all staff, zero motivation for staff, they are the only company in the UK who do not do regular staff appraisals, awful working environments, (trains), a very mean greedy company who do not even give staff a £5 gift voucher at Christmas, neither do they give you free travel on their OWN buses.......it doesn't get worse than this. Yet Virgin Trains is visibly professionally run, they value their staff highly and prove that by offering concessions to all their employees. They have done so much real hardwork to make Virgin what it is today, to suddenly have it taken away from them and given to a cheap bus operator who have no idea of airline industry high standards, like Branson does.