THE UK Government is to restart its crisis-hit rail franchising programme after an independent review concluded the system was not broken but in need of reform.
A report by Eurostar chairman Richard Brown, ordered after the collapse of the West Coast rail franchise competition in October, shunned radical measures such as re-nationalisation, insisting the system of contracting private train operators to run services was "fundamentally sound" and had helped achieve a 92% growth in passengers since privatisation.
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