TRANSPORT group National Express has paid the price for pulling out of running the East Coast Main Line rail route with the Government announcing that it will have its East Anglia rail franchise terminated three years early.

The Department for Transport said National Express would lose the franchise on March 31, 2011.

It could have been extended until 2014 had National Express not defaulted on another franchise - the East Coast Main Line - earlier this year. It handed that route - which runs between London and Scotl......for the full story register now for free or login below...