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Station by station
01.07.09
King's Cross
National Express: sacked by the Department for Transport after East Coast Main Line crashed into losses.
Liverpool St
National Express East Anglia: gets “revenue support” handouts with fall in passenger growth. DfT is threatening to sack National Express.
Fenchurch St
National Express: under threat of government intervention. Passenger growth has fallen because of recession in City.
London Bridge/Cannon St/ Charing Cross
Go-Ahead: passenger growth has slowed to about zero on Southeastern. Yet to judge impact of the new superfast service from Kent.
Victoria
Go-Ahead: passenger numbers are falling on Southern Railways. Southern has signed up to pay back £500 million of projected profits.
Waterloo
Stagecoach: has warned its South West Trains will slump into “significant” losses in a huge row with Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.
Paddington
FirstGroup: FirstGreatWestern still struggling to shake off its Worst Late Western tag. Getting £50 million a year government bailout.
Marylebone
Deutsche Bahn: the line to the Chilterns has historically been London's best and most successful.
Euston
Virgin Rail: decade-long disaster on the West Coast Main Line continues with passenger numbers down.
St Pancras
Stagecoach: says East Midland Trains is doing better than under previous owner National Express. Co-tenant Eurostar, however, has had an 11 per cent collapse in passenger numbers.
