Guardian uses Open Government Code : "Public were misled over cost of £10bn rail line"

Guardian Thursday April 1, 2004

"A previously unpublished report obtained by the Guardian under the "open government" code shows how as early as 1994 - two years before Railtrack was privatised and five years before the original version of the project collapsed, contributing to the firm's eventual destruction - consultants recommended that Railtrack and the then Tory government use an untried, high technology signalling system for the line."