Virgin Trains and Stagecoach win £3.3bn contract to run the

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Virgin Trains and Stagecoach win £3.3bn contract to run the East Coast mainline rail franchise

Stagecoach and Virgin Trains are set to cash in on one of Britain’s most lucrative railway contracts after ministers surprised the City by awarding the £3.3 billion, eight-year East Coast mainline contract to their joint venture.

The Government staved off one political row by rejecting the favourite — a joint bid by Eurostar and Keolis, both majority-owned by France.

But critics still condemned the move to re-privatisate the London-to-Scotland line by handing it to Stagecoach, led by Scottish tycoon Brian Souter, and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Trains.

The East Coast mainline has generated £1 billion for UK taxpayers since 2009, when former operator National Express handed the contract back to the Government.

The RMT union called returning the franchise to the private sector “a national disgrace”. General secretary Mick Cash added: “This is pure industrial vandalism by a rotten government hell-bent on wrecking successful public services in the name of private greed.”

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