Former Southeastern franchise fined for hiding HS1 funding

The government has fined the owner of the former Southeastern franchise a total of £23.5 million after it found that the company had hidden £25 million of lower costs from its HS1 rail service.
Last September, the Department for Transport (DfT) unexpectedly stripped the franchise from London & South Eastern Railway Limited (LSER) and took over operations of the service under its Operator of Last Resort scheme after it said the company had been in a serious breach of its obligatio