A history of Virgin Trains West Coast | Part 2: How Virgin Trains collapsed?

Hello & welcome to the part one of my Virgin Trains West Coast miniseries, the second episode of my Virgin Trains rail operators series and the sixth episode of my WCML operators mini-series where I look at the operators of the West Coast Mainline. Today we will look at the second half of Virgin Trains' operations of the Intercity West Coast franchise and whether or not Virgin Trains should be viewed as the great operator they always were!
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