This from the Worlds Greatest Living Transport Correspondent, via the BBC...
ANALYSIS Rail expert and journalist Christian Wolmar
I'm afraid that it was always likely.
Originally this was set up by a rival company to Chiltern, which runs most of the services on that line, and eventually they both became owned by Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway.
So it was no longer really viable for Deutsche Bahn to be running services that were rival to its main franchise services.
So that's cleared that up then!
