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The privatised railway gives good value to taxpayers

Norman Bradbury, (Former head of policy group, Railfuture), Worcester Park, Surrey KT4
01 November 2013
 

I note Julie Boston’s enthusiasm for re-nationalising the railways, which she shares with Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and the railway unions but I feel it is time to expose the myth that by removing the need to pay dividends to shareholders it would save £1bn a year (Letters LTT 04 Oct).

In 2011/12, the grand total of profits earned by all Train Operating Companies (TOCs) came to £91m after tax and East Midlands Trains, Chiltern Railways and First Great Western all made a...

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