THOMAS the Tank Engine would have been fair puffed out. The cherub-faced locomotive wouldn't have had a moment's peace if he had been working for GNER.
Since winning the East Coast Main Line franchise seven years ago, the York-based company has transported one hundred million passengers - alongside, presumably, one hundred million mobile phones, sandwiches and discarded newspapers.
That is quite an operation. Yet the GNER bosses are not satisfied with having transported their passengers an estimated 13 billion miles. They feel that even more work needs to be done. All this activity can only be good for York.
Updated: 12:23 Tuesday, April 29, 2003
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