EU regulations require, IIRC, separation of railway infrastructure companies (like Network Rail is in UK) from actual transport operators. The new regs coming i

EU regulations require, IIRC, separation of railway infrastructure companies (like Network Rail is in UK) from actual transport operators. The new regs coming in require that everyone (who gets through necessary certification) can bid for time/space allocation on the infrastructure. It does not mean you have to privatise or can't nationalize railways, it just means that private operators can exist and have to be able to use same rules and rates for access to infrastructure. Whether it's good idea or not I can't say, but there's a lot of pro-trade neolibby thought like that in last few decades of EU law.