To clarify, as that paints a fairly broad brush: Southern Rail cover a dense but geographically small part of southern England. Their reputation is rightfully p

To clarify, as that paints a fairly broad brush: Southern Rail cover a dense but geographically small part of southern England. Their reputation is rightfully poor, but in large part because their performance is exceptionally worse than most other franchises, I believe? To put it another way: large parts of southern England are served by reliable train operators (IMO and IME - source: 20+ years of commuting on South Western Railway, née South West Trains).