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It HAS NOT worked great for Sweden. Source: I live in Sweden there was a DN article recently about it. Here it is https://archive.is/zaGtb https://archive.is/

It HAS NOT worked great for Sweden. Source: I live in Sweden there was a DN article recently about it. Here it is https://archive.is/zaGtb https://archive.is/zaGtb Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240721074607/https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/jarnvagen-vittrar-sonder-mitt-framfor-vara-ogon/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240721074607/https://www.dn.se... (Its all too segmented, the trains, the track all different companies now nobody sees the full picture) and https://archive.is/MztnY https://archive.is/MztnY Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240726054426/https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/sj-far-riva-friends-arena-om-de-vill-ha-mer-tagdepaer/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240726054426/https://www.dn.se... (The land is not enough to fix trains and the land next to it was reserved but somehow sold to build a sports arena because the train land section became a company that had to post good numbers) I hear UK is not too happy about their rail too. https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=yNWcAUZ69nN1B29O https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=yNWcAUZ69nN1B29O Seems like it just does not work to separate rail and traffic like that.

daghamm 2y ago
Came here to say this. Alos, one important thing that happened in Sweden was that the part that was not privatised was also ran like a for profit company. The railway infrastructure "CEO" basically stopped a lot of repair work and long term projects and was able to show some very good numbers to the goverment, which they very much liked. 10-15 years later things started falling apart, by which time she was long gone.
- soco 2y ago
  If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and follows all the Wall Street bad practices... So much for obstinately calling it "not-privatized", when by all practical matters it is.
TimK65 2y ago
100%. That was a whole series of articles in DN about how the Swedish railways have been run into the ground. Separating maintenance from operations is a terrible idea and has never worked well on any railway that I'm aware of.

daghamm 2y ago

Came here to say this. Alos, one important thing that happened in Sweden was that the part that was not privatised was also ran like a for profit company. The railway infrastructure "CEO" basically stopped a lot of repair work and long term projects and was able to show some very good numbers to the goverment, which they very much liked. 10-15 years later things started falling apart, by which time she was long gone.

soco 2y ago
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and follows all the Wall Street bad practices... So much for obstinately calling it "not-privatized", when by all practical matters it is.

TimK65 2y ago

100%. That was a whole series of articles in DN about how the Swedish railways have been run into the ground. Separating maintenance from operations is a terrible idea and has never worked well on any railway that I'm aware of.