(02 Apr 2020, 5:39 pm)Ds1197 wrote I would rather keep it publicly owned than privatised
Totally agree. Tendering it out to DB for those years, was an unmitigated disaster as far as I am concerned.
I don't think it would be any different under a franchise tied with local heavy rail ops either.
I know the opposite happened with MerseyRail, but it's just something I can see happening. Unfortunately.