Can Labour allow rail mail to fail?

Royal Mail road switch damages rail freight’s prospects

rail@bauermedia.co.uk @RAIL ROYAL Mail’s decision to end its involvement with rail from October 10 (see Network News, pages 10-11) seems inevitable. Most of us might have been forgiven for thinking that it fizzled out a long time ago. Discussing how to keep the remaining 3% of Royal Mail’s total business on the railway is unlikely to warrant any discussion time in the new Labour government’s busy schedule. However, understanding the company’s £419 million loss last year, and getting its controversial £3.7 billion takeover by a Czech tycoon past the unions, surely will. The question is: can new fast parcels carrier Varamis Rail (and others) expand quickly enough to fill some of the gap created by Royal Mail’s withdrawal in a little over three months’ time? Varamis is a chink of…

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