Britain has gone through regular and repeated crises with their trains, and pretty much the entire system went bankrupt during COVID. The government paid what

Britain has gone through regular and repeated crises with their trains, and pretty much the entire system went bankrupt during COVID. The government paid what it took to keep it going, but it's not a smooth system by any means. Even during what people would consider the heyday of British Rail, it still required significant and ongoing government subsidies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Great_Britain_1995_to_date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Great_Britain_1948%E2%80%931994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G...