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Title: Network Rail going back to completely inhouse? Post by: Shazz on January 04, 2008, 15:52:54 Network Rail is to take another step towards renationalisation by stripping its contractors of responsibility for some key upgrades and taking much of the work in-house.
More than 250,000 passengers had journeys disrupted by the four-day overrun at Rugby and a similar 24-hour stoppage at Liver-pool Street station in London after Network Rail admitted that it was caught by surprise when projects overran badly over Christmas. The Times understands that contractors are likely to be removed from the role of overseeing schemes and could eventually lose much of the ^2.5 billion of work commissioned by Network Rail each year. More can be found at: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3129370.ece Title: Re: Network Rail going back to completely inhouse? Post by: vacman on January 04, 2008, 15:55:56 GOOD! Lets hope NR learn from their mistakes!
Title: Re: Network Rail going back to completely inhouse? Post by: Lee on January 04, 2008, 16:03:14 More on this in the link below.
http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5051.msg9163#msg9163 Title: Re: Network Rail going back to completely inhouse? Post by: smokey on January 05, 2008, 16:54:25 It will NEVER save MONEY using contractors, they only make money themselves normally 10-20% of the cost of a project.
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