How did the Department for Transport go off the rails?

Remember the Virgin Trains mess? A multi-million pound shambles that cost tax payers a fortune...well we won't get our money back, but today (at last) we will get some answers. Later an official report into what went wrong will be made public.

Meanwhile, the very same Government Department has bundled together a series of developments aiming to present the whole thing as great news.

In a press release it says:

Let's not be fooled. This was a monumental foul-up and today we will want to know how much it has cost us and who was responsible. So far a handful of civil servants have been investigated and suspended - but it seems inconceivable they acted alone.

As often in the rail industry - there has been a delay...but today answers are on the timetable.