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Network Rail and Diseconomies of Scale

Geoff Riley

26th June 2015

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Is Network Rail too big? Virgin Rail boss Richard Branson clearly thinks so according to this BBC news report. He is quoted as saying that "Network Rail is far too big a company. I think that companies that kind of size should be broken up into small units."

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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