Mhm. I'll absolutely agree some infrastructure is at its limit/oversubscribed, but I also think you're generalizing a bit too much from your own experience with

Mhm. I'll absolutely agree some infrastructure is at its limit/oversubscribed, but I also think you're generalizing a bit too much from your own experience without data to back it up. Btw. Wooden sleepers laid in the 19th century have completely rotted away by now; it's impossible for the line track itself to be that old (except very slow speed shunting tracks, maybe.)