UK - Rail operators will be bidding for franchises with the umbrella pension scheme facing its first ever deficit.
The £13bn Railways Pension Scheme had a “healthy” surplus when British Rail was privatised in 1994 although this had shrunk to a small aggregate surplus at its last actuarial valuation in December ...
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