GNER wins East Coast franchise
SRA announcement (2 pages, PDF) that GNER (Sea Containers) has been awarded a seven-year franchise to continue operating its East Coast Main Line services. The benefit to taxpayers is a stream of premium payments amounting to £1,300 million over the course of the franchise. Headline benefits for passengers include a £75 million refurbishment of the HST fleet and a £25 million station refurbishment.
Update, April 2005: Daily Telegraph article on the profile of premium payments.
Link is to the DfT site. The notice was originally published as a webpage but seems now to be available only as a PDF.
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Filed under DfT, GNER/Grand Central, Rail & bus.
