Date: 28/06/2009
ONE OF the great railway journeys of the world is the 393-mile route from Edinburgh to London King's Cross, still evoking some of the glamour of the halcyon era of the steam train. Yet it is no secret that National Express, the current operator on the East Coast Main Line, is in a desperate financial situation and its franchise operation hangs by a very slender thread.
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