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Thursday, 16 November, 2000, 23:10 GMT
UK rail firms to pay for chaos
UK rail passengers, ground down by weeks of cancellations and delays after the Hatfield crash and the monsoon weather, are going to have to take it for a bit longer. Well into the New Year, in fact, despite urgings from Downing Street. A summit at Number Ten got passengers a promise of working timetables, and some sort of compensation package. But Railtrack said there was still a year's worth of rail renewals to be done in the next six weeks. And it would be the end of January before Intercity Routes were back to normal. Tom Symonds reports.
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