First West Coast

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RE: First West Coast

(21/08/2012 16:22)wirralbus Wrote:  I do think Virgin should be looking at further opportunities to get there teeth into like trying to turn East Coast around after two failed bidders and then the government coming to the rescue .

I don't think they will go for the East Coast or Great Western after considering the future of both franchises.

Virgin won't run a 153 to Looe, whilst the EC franchise is supposed to be taking over a number of more "local" services in the future, which probably won't suit their brand image.

I suspect the next we may hear of VT in franchise world is for HS2.

It would be a good punt for Virgin to also look at Open Access London-Europe services via HS1 as a competitor for Eurostar. The line has LOADS of capacity.