Honestly nationalising the railways isn’t necessarily socialism either, if and when the for-profit companies abandon even attempting to reliably run the damned

Honestly nationalising the railways isn’t necessarily socialism either, if and when the for-profit companies abandon even attempting to reliably run the damned infrastructure and move to generations of collusion, monopolies, and rent-seeking instead. There’s a point at which rail lines are no different than highways systems or the sea and are better managed as part of the commons even in a capitalist / libertarian system precisely because there’s no way to distinguish one carrier from another in terms of competition.