Sea Containers spruce up rail service

Title

Sea Containers spruce up rail service

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

29 Mar 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:03:36

Description

Orient Express owners Sea Containers, are vowing to spruce up rail services after scooping the seven-year franchise for the Intercity East Coast Line. Paul Chapman reports including excerpts from the press conference in London today where Sea Containers President James Sherwood outlined a series of improvements planned to the rail service; Christopher Garnett Chief Executive of the subsidiary company which will run the rail service spoke on improvements; Roger Salmon, rail franchise director on why Sea Containers was chosen.

Contributors

James Sherwood; Paul Chapman; Roger Salmon; Christopher Garnett

Keywords

Privatization; Railway services; Franchise; Sea Containers

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