Who’d believe it? The East Coast Main Line’s services are back in Government hands again.

Wasn’t it Karl Marx who said: ‘History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?’.

When East Coast was renationalised after GNER failed, the service then made a decent profit for the public purse. The service ran well with the bonus of being free of Virgin’s irritating notices. Let’s hope for the same sparkling performance this time round.

Roger Backhouse,

Orchard Road,

Upper Poppleton, York