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Shooter aims his fire at meddling civil servants

James Dark reports from a seminar on Tory priorities for the rail network

By James Dark
24 October 2008

 

One of the country’s most senior railwaymen has made a public attack of unprecedented ferocity on the control the government and its regulators exercise over the industry.

Speaking at a seminar on priorities for a Conservative government, Laing Rail chairman Adrian Shooter said that micromanagement by the “amateur railwaymen” at the Department for Transport meant it was inevitable that passengers would suffer a poorer service.

He described Transport for London’s...

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