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It is also extraordinarily expensive, and since the cuts in the 1960s you have a fraction of the railway lines. It is absolutely terrible. Who knows if it was
by vintagedave 10mo ago
It is also extraordinarily expensive, and since the cuts in the 1960s you have a fraction of the railway lines. It is absolutely terrible.
Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days, but it sure needs some unification and central governance without a profit motive today.
- dash2 10mo ago> Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days I do. I was there. It wasn't.
- tim333 10mo agoAlso if you look at the usage numbers they dropped off in the nationalised days and picked back up after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Great_Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G... I was around but not a heavy rail user in the nationalised days though the stories back then were quite reminiscent of the current DB stories.