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Title: Who's the landlord? TOCs or Network Rail? Post by: JayMac on August 05, 2010, 05:09:13 Reading an item on the SHRUG (http://www.shrug.info/Hogrider127/HOGRIDER%20127%20PART%201.html) website I came across a snippit about a station retailer complaining about their rent increase, which blamed South West Trains:
Quote SWT responded that catering outlets were not their responsibility. Yet an article about Brian Souter being in line for another, ^6.3 million, bonus drew the response from the proprietor of Coffee Charisma, Godalming: ^I am a tenant of SWT and they are asking me for a 140% increase in my rent, when the footfall at the station I have an outlet has increased 10% in 3 years.^ Do TOCs, who themselves are merely tenants of stations, have any responsibilty for setting the rents payable by catering outlets? Title: Re: Who's the landlord? TOCs or Network Rail? Post by: inspector_blakey on August 05, 2010, 05:18:03 Well, given that SHRUG will stop at nothing to put the boot into SWT (to the extent that there are articles on the website complaining about Megabus, guilt by association since it's also Stagecoach-run ::)), I wouldn't be surprised if that snippet is incorrect. SWT evidently think that it's not their responsibility, but maybe the proprietor of Coffee Charisma knows better.
Title: Re: Who's the landlord? TOCs or Network Rail? Post by: Electric train on August 05, 2010, 20:27:37 Network Rail are the owners of all operational railway land that includes stations, the principle route TOC is the lease holder and is responsible for the operating and managing of the stations and can sub let space to retailers. The exception are the major stations (like Paddington) which Network Rail operate
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