Once the UK's BEST Operator - Wessex Trains!? | Western Operators #2 - Wessex Trains

Hello & welcome to the 28th Failed Franchise episode and the second episode of my Western rail operators mini-series where I look at the operators of Western England. Today I will be looking at the Wessex franchise, a franchise only lasting just shy of 5 years - but were Wessex trains any good and should they, perhaps, be deemed as a failure?

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Any criticisms mentioned in this video is not meant to directly attack any of the former staff of Wessex, who I am sure did a brilliant job!

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References (including accredited sources):
Wikipedia
BBC
Business Traveller
Cornish Times
Daily Mail
Friends of Severn Beach Railway
Gazette & Herald
Hereford Times
Manchester Evening News
Marlow-Maidenhead Passengers' Association
Southern Daily Echo
Railfuture
Railhub
Railnews Business
RMT
The Guardian
Somerst County Gazette
Wales Online
Wessex Trains website
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
Workers' Liberty
WSR.org

Thumbnail Image Credit: Wessex Class 150 DMU 150230 05.jpg, Chris McKenna (Thryduulf), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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