Well it didn't work great in the 90s. There's a great documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfaKKVS5Hc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfaKK

Well it didn't work great in the 90s. There's a great documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfaKKVS5Hc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfaKKVS5Hc from 1990. The problems will seem very similar. Where I think privatisation went wrong (the core concept of having private operators bid on franchises is ~right imo) is the state lost a lot of 'management' knowledge that was in British Rail. This has really killed us because we don't know how to build complex civil engineering projects anymore, and _the management_ of them gets outsourced to large contractors like Arup at eye watering costs. They also have a terrible conflict of interest as if they manage it well, they often get paid much less than managing a slow moving disaster of a project. I think this needs to be solved first, not getting the state to operate train fleets.