Intercity Infrastructure costs - Opportunities for short term reduction from civil engineering (MR-TM-001)

The target agreed between the BRB and the government for InterCity was that the InterCity business should be earning a 5% return on assets employed, equivalent to a profit of over £30m by 1988/9. With a loss in 1984 of £100 m on a turn-over of £630 m, this represents...