LNW-GW Joint
Veteran Member
Wales (and Scotland) can plunder the rest of its Westminster funding for a rail settlement, but it will cost them somewhere in its budget.Absolutely, the same scenario also appears to apply to Steve Rotherham with Merseyrail.
Wales is in desperate straights with its NHS operation for instance.
I expect it will tell in reduced services somewhere as costs bite.
Merseyrail is a bit different, but Steve Rotheram somehow has to balance the cost of the Merseyrail operation with its fares and service level.
I don't really know how it can work when the basis of the 777 purchase was radical change in operational costs, none of which look likely to happen.