Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, confirmed TPE – which runs trains throughout the north and into Scotland – will be stripped of the franchise when its contract ends on 28 May and services will be run under the Operator of Last Resort model. Government becomes biggest rail operator for first time in decades as TransPennine Express loses contract (msn.com)
About time. They are the only train company that service my town regularly... Once per hour each direction. And not surprisingly, the majority of those have been cancelled lately. I don't ride the train much so not that big of a problem, until I need to go somewhere I can only get to by train.
