Arriva pulls out of Wales and Borders

This from the twitter feed of Ken Skates…

Ken is 'the Official channel of the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure' at the Welsh Assembly Government:

Statement from Transport for Wales on the Wales and Borders Franchise pic.twitter.com/57T0zEglCT

— Ken Skates (@wgcs_economy) October 30, 2017

This leaves the following in the running:

• KeolisAmey;
• MTR; and 
• Abellio

Interesting, possibly even unexpected...