Colton Junction, East Coast 43320 (16.47 Kings Cross - Edinburgh) 14/04/10.
East Coast HST 43320 races towards Colton Junction with the 16.47 Kings Cross - Edinburgh, April 14th 2010.
* In July 2009, National Express announced it planned to default on the franchise, having failed to renegotiate the contractual terms of operation, and would not provide any further funding. This meant NXEC would run out of cash by the end of 2009. As a result, the DfT announced it would re-nationalise the franchise.
The franchise was re-nationalised on 14 November 2009 with Directly Operated Railways' subsidiary East Coast taking over, with the intention being that operations would return to a private franchisee by December 2013.
In March 2013, the Secretary of State for Transport announced that this would be put back to February 2015.
Colton Junction, East Coast 43320 (16.47 Kings Cross - Edinburgh) 14/04/10.
East Coast HST 43320 races towards Colton Junction with the 16.47 Kings Cross - Edinburgh, April 14th 2010.
* In July 2009, National Express announced it planned to default on the franchise, having failed to renegotiate the contractual terms of operation, and would not provide any further funding. This meant NXEC would run out of cash by the end of 2009. As a result, the DfT announced it would re-nationalise the franchise.
The franchise was re-nationalised on 14 November 2009 with Directly Operated Railways' subsidiary East Coast taking over, with the intention being that operations would return to a private franchisee by December 2013.
In March 2013, the Secretary of State for Transport announced that this would be put back to February 2015.