A co-operative open access operator?

This from Rail-news.com...

Go! Co-operative www.go-now.coop, is gathering momentum in its aim to become the UK’s first co-operatively-owned Train Operating Company (TOC), and has appointed three new board members to take the organisation forward to operational stage.

Apparently the first route proposed "will enhance cross country connections in Somerset and Wiltshire".

Alas, as yet, there is no record of a track access application from the company on the ORR website.

Very strange.

UPDATE: This from Alex Lawrie, a Director of Go! Co-op...

Thanks for taking an interest - but as I'm sure you know, there is a lot of work to do before we are able to put in a track access application.

We need to get some credible demand forecasts, check the capacity on the the route, and form innumerable partnerships in order to satisfy the necessary requirements for railway operations.

I wouldn't want to raise expectations too high - but we have now cut our shortlist of possible routes to two, and the support of our founder members is enabling us to commission the detailed work they require.

We also have other public transport projects that we are pursuing in parallel.

Watch this space...