Bullish First Group bounces 支援する: Rail 操作者 粉砕するs 期待s with £82m 年次の 利益（をあげる）

By Daily Mail City & 財政／金融 Reporter

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Off the rails: First Group was stripped of the TransPennine Express franchise

Off the rails: First Group was stripped of the TransPennine 表明する franchise?

The boss of rail 操作者 First Group has said the past three years were ‘の中で the most challenging’ in the 産業’s history as it 直面するd the pandemic and strikes.

Yet にもかかわらず a difficult ‘経済的な and 産業の relations 背景’, Graham Sutherland 主張するd that the company is 堅固に on 跡をつける this year ? even after it was stripped of the TransPennine 表明する franchise.

It （機の）カム after the 会社／堅い 粉砕するd 期待s with 年次の 利益（をあげる） of £82.1million in the year to March 25, up from £36.2million a year before.?

株 in the 会社／堅い, which operates buses in 40 UK towns and cities and rail 網状組織s 含むing Avanti West Coast and South Western, rose 13.9 per cent, or 16.5p, to 1325.2p.

First Group, which recently sold its First Student, First 輸送 and Greyhound 商売／仕事s, said it bounc ed 支援する last year as people returned to pre-pandemic lifestyles such as 減刑する／通勤するing and visiting friends.

The Department for 輸送（する） last month said rail 乗客 numbers were at a 地位，任命する-Covid high ? at 98.3 per cent of 2019 levels.

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