George Muir points out that there is more to Chris Grayling’s ‘soft vertical integration’ than meets the eye. He suggests that the alliances “look very like a restatement of existing government policy. Muir says that in five years’ time the railway will look quite different from the way it does now, so that we end up talking about regional railways rather than ‘Network Rail’. “To all intents and purposes, these will be the vertically integrated regional railway companies we have always talked about.”
We've read it in: Passenger Transport, (Issue 149) December 9, P24
