Date: 25/03/2022

Contract to run Britain's biggest commuter rail network comes a week after £23.5m fine. The transport group Go-Ahead has been awarded a new contract to run Britain's biggest commuter rail network a week after being fined £23.5m for wrongly withholding £50m of taxpayers money on another franchise. The rail union RMT said it was a sick joke that the groups Govia joint venture was given a three-year deal to continue running the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, which served about a million passengers daily pre-Covid.

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Contract to run Britains biggest commuter rail network comes a week after £23.5m fine

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