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Rail privateers cash in on storm chaos at public expense
Franchises plan to claw back cash for cancelled trains
Rail privateers are laughing all the way to the bank after this week’s storm, transport union RMT has said.
Train companies are set to cash in at the expense of publicly owned Network Rail because of cancelled services.
RMT said it “exposes the rip-off of rail privatisation in all its gory detail.”
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