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While there are private railway networks doing their own thing, the overall national network is operated by the JR group, which was formerly the unified JNR unt
by bobthepanda 3y ago
While there are private railway networks doing their own thing, the overall national network is operated by the JR group, which was formerly the unified JNR until it was privatized.
The companies do jointly operate though, in something that they call ‘mutual direct operation’ where they basically each agree to run trains on each others line as one continuous (to the customer) operation and split the fares.
- burkaman 3y agoOk I didn't realize it used to be nationalized, that helps explain why cooperation between the companies is so much better.
- bobthepanda 3y agoI would also maybe not characterize all of the groups as the best in the world. The profitable ones are in the urban areas of Honshu. JR Kyushu is staying afloat, and Hokkaido and Shikoku are losing money hand over fist.