As that well-known observer of the passenger rail franchising scene, Mr Kenny Rogers, almost wrote: 'Now every franchise owner knows, the secret to survivin' is knowin' what to throw away, and knowin' what to keep' And as further details of the Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements (ERMA), announced by the Department for Transport on 21 September, have emerged, it is clear Mr Rogers is bang on the money. You have to look at the current situation from the viewpoint of the civil servants who have been responsible for running franchising for the past 25 years. In the beginning the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (Opraf) produced the Rolls-Royce of franchising systems (I thinkyou mean 'world-beating'-Ed).
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