Britain scraps private finance plan for Crossrail trains

Posted on March 01, 2013 at 13:55 PM EST

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Britain has ditched a plan to use private sector money to fund the building of trains for its 16 billion pound ($24 billion)Crossrail project, putting taxpayers on the hook for an extra 650 million pounds.

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