A total of 85 separate applications have been lodged to launch new rail services or extend existing ones, prompting concerns that the busiest parts of the UK network could fall under increasingly intense pressure over the next five years.
Many are from full-risk concerns that will be independent of government control when existing train operators’ current contracts expire or are terminated early.
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