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Aug 24, 2012 23:07


"It's all not very sporting is it chaps, First won it fair and square and now Virgin are trying to use the power of their brand to overturn it." That is the noise that most of the rail industry is making at the moment. I also see various people quoting various statistics in an attempt to prove that Virgin are just pedalling a big lie. I can see ( Read more... )

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coralleane August 25 2012, 08:04:45 UTC
I have very little direct experience with either of them BUT about ten years ago a driver with Virgin Trains let me sneak into his cab at Poole station, go into the sidings, and then travel in the cab while he was running out of service to Bournemouth. So on that count I'm emotionally attached (plus they called their trains Voyagers at about the time I was wildly obsessed with Star Trek: Voyager...).

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jhall1 August 25 2012, 09:40:05 UTC
Hopefully Virgin didn't use the name because their passengers wouldn't know when - if ever - they would get home. :)

Oh, and welcome back to LJ, Brian. It's good to know that you're still in the land of the living. :)

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