Cost to taxpayers to keep services running during Covid has ballooned to £11bn, Government figures reveal
12 May 2021 • 7:08pm
Rail bosses are poised to bring back InterCity 125 carriages from the 1980s to limit the fallout from mass cancellations after faulty Hitachi trains were taken out of service.
Great Western Railway is considering bringing in additional British Rail-era carriages as part of emergency measures to keep passengers moving.
Other operators are supporting GWR, which runs express services between London, Wales and the west and has been hardest hit by the crisis.
Trenitalia, which runs c2c and is owned by the Italian government, has loaned GWR three trains. Cross Country ran 28 trains across the south west to help out GWR.