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I was surprised to see it announced today that Chiltern will be running services on the first leg of EWR. Not because it is surprising in the slightest, but rather because it has been such common knowledge for so long…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjyvrvw1vwo
@OccasionalDucks wasn't the government going to nationalise the railways?
Yes, but Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Of course given that British Rail still exists there’s an argument that it could go faster if they transferred powers and TUPE’d personnel into that rather than spending time creating “Great British Rail” to transfer powers and TUPE personnel into…
@barnetboy Define "nationalised".
It's nationalised in the same way that TfL is nationalised - contracts are handed out and tendered for.
Sadly one of the biggest money holes - the Rolling Stock "Operating" Companies are still in play and *new trains* from currently nationalised operators (looking at you, LNER) are still being bought via them rather than bought and owned outright by the railway.
@barnetboy Also don't forget that TfL bought the Crossrail fleet outright and then SOLD it to a ROSCO.
@technicalotter It's all bloody barmy!
@OccasionalDucks The News™ always is about eight billion years behind the state of the railways.
There's probably some commentary about the decline in journalism. The BBC in particular feel like they've dropped standards. I'm often finding articles with poor grammar or primary school level mistakes. If that's any indicator, lord knows what may or may not be going on inside!
To be fair to the Beeb while everyone has known yesterday was the first official confirmation that Chiltern will be running the service.
I am getting steadily more frustrated with the ongoing war on adjectives (and corresponding abuse of nouns), war on conjunctions, but it seems to be across journalism rather than limited to the BBC. They’re just oblivious though, even when they completely reverse the meaning of their sentence.