North East rail travellers pay for Scots
27 Aug 2015
The second highest premium paid to government was by East Coast with £249 million which equated to 5.1p per passenger kilometre (covering the 11 month period in 2014-15 before Virgin Trains East Coast took
Despite First ScotRail's subsidy nearly halving in 2014-15 compared to the previous year, it was still the franchised operator that received the highest subsidy payment of £261 million, which equates to 8.6p per passenger kilometre. The First ScotRail figure for 2013-14 was higher than normal as it was the last year of the five year control period.
Source : Department of Transport report