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MINISTERS be obliged asked train companies for ideas to cut the cost of running the railways — and consider told them they can keep half the savings. The idea is to accord. the firms an incentive to agree to changes in their contracts.

“Rail exemption agreements are extremely detailed, right down to how many carriages are forward individual services,” said one train company chief executive. “The shared savings are there to help cut through the contracts.”

More radical options are in the pipeline. Industry sources look for the Department for Transport to back a trial of “upright integration”, with trains and tracks being run by one partnership as they were under British Rail. Merseyrail, in Liverpool, is tipped at the same time that the likely guinea pig.

The drive for savings is expected to precedence to big fare increases in January, train bosses said.

Meanwhile, companies chasing dominion IT contracts have been warned they face extra scrutiny before at all more work is awarded.