{"id":153,"date":"2007-07-12T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-07-12T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T11:46:08","slug":"virgin-lose-the-cross-country-francise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Lose the Cross Country Francise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:712,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312080445\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 21:41:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 21:41:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Wow! Virgin have lost the Cross Country franchise to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arriva<\/a>! <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">One thing that struck me straight away is that they&#39;re promising to reintroduce HSTs! That&#39;s something Virgin were determined not to do and when they&#39;ve hired one in they&#39;ve apologised about the fact!<br \/> I&#39;ll be fascinated to see if they improve the services and also the number of seats on the trains! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Virgin have lost the Cross Country franchise to Arriva! One thing that struck me straight away is that they&#39;re promising to reintroduce HSTs! That&#39;s something Virgin were determined not to do and when they&#39;ve hired one in they&#39;ve apologised about the fact! I&#39;ll be fascinated to see if they improve the services and also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin Lose the Cross Country Francise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railways"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-2t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}