1.   But private operators can turn profits only if prices rise radically and rapidly.

2.   The brief experience of Stagecoach, the only private operator running regular passenger services, has been mixed.

3.   BRITISH Coal will soon advertise Parkside Colliery for lease to private operators.

4.   Get private operators on the railway and everything will work just fine.

5.   Private operators must be offered flexibility, he added.

6.   At present Strathclyde PTE and ScotRail cross-subsidise to maintain off-peak services but a private operator looking for maximum profit would do no such thing.

7.   A private operator won the first five franchises, but after that, the state company S J won all but one of the remaining sixteen.

8.   Will the investment in new wagons be justified by private operators or leasing companies given the uncertainty of the market?