Who says our trains are privatised? East Midlands Railway is state-owned if not by our government but that of the Netherlands! Abelio, who operate the TOC, is wholly owned by Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the state-owned Dutch railway, that is the third busiest in the world behind Japan and Switzerland. Notice that the outline of the previous operator's graphics can be seen under the hastily applied EMR vinyls. East Midlands Trains relinquished the franchise on 17.08.19 with slow progress being made re-painting its class 222 Meridians.
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