> It works in Japan However, it doesn't work in London. There are a dozen train franchises, remnants of the privatized and sliced-up British Rail system. They

> It works in Japan However, it doesn't work in London. There are a dozen train franchises, remnants of the privatized and sliced-up British Rail system. They are all atrocious in service quality, frequency, capacity and usually price when compared to the parts of the system that were never privatised (the Underground) or that were renationalised (the Overground).