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Papers ask why UK state-owned rail firm can’t compete with foreign rivals

The irony that a significant percentage of the UK’s rail network is run by ‘private’ firms that are actually owned by foreign governments was not lost on the media in the wake of the ScotRail franchise award.

Rik Thomas
17 October 2014
The decision to award the ScotRail franchise to Dutch firm Abellio prompted a wave of commentary concerning the growing dominance of foreign state-owned operators in the UK rail sector
The decision to award the ScotRail franchise to Dutch firm Abellio prompted a wave of commentary concerning the growing dominance of foreign state-owned operators in the UK rail sector

 

ON 9 OCTOBER The Scottish Daily Record editorialised on the decision by the Scottish Government to award the ScotRail franchise to Abellio (p10). “No one will miss the irony of the Scottish Government handing a £6bn contract to run Scotland’s railways to a state-owned arm of the Dutch Government,” the paper began. “It seems they know how to run a railway in the Netherlands but we cannot trust ourselves to do so in Scotland.

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