Sean Hill, Gateshead
4th November 2013 | Your Views
What are the benefits of privatisation? Profits for foreign companies, confusion on focus within the industry, lack of re-investment, and the trains belonging to the bank.
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Barry Reeves, BlabyChristian Wolmar calculates that BR cost between £1m and £1.5m and today the railway cost £6m, including the Network Rail Debt. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Martin Farrow, HarlowBritish Rail is so much better – bring it back.
Kevin Price, NottinghamTrains should be accessible and far more affordable over longer distances, rather than using a car and the expense of fuel. Also more employment should be created.
David Buttle, WinchesterThe biggest mistake was to privatise the railways. I am a working volunteer on heritage rail and grandson of an LNER staff member from Stockton station.
L CJ, PenzanceAs a teen addict living in Penzance, I am unable to afford the train to attend a youth narcotics anonymous meeting that I would particularly benefit from.
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Good riddance to these hated private companies along with 'Rail Partners', 'Rail Delivery Group' and all the other associated crap that has plagued the railways of this country for the last 30 years.
At last our railways will soon no longer be subsidising foreign and European railways. That's apart from DB freight
British Rail wasn't perfect but they got things moving better and not many people know this. One privatisation zealot said to me that I was no closer to correcting him that the Big 4 was a success and British Railways was a failure but having read JK Lewis' book about The Western's Hydraulics, it simply tells me that I would have thought they were actually run by the same people. The truth about privatisation is that it was run with too much civil servant bureaucracy. The fact is that they thought they knew best by trying to run a railway that has caused mostly problems.
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Is it just me, or do some of the contributors to Bring Back British Rail not actually want to bring back British Rail?
They know they'll only be in for one session
Get it done, then the Water Company's.
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I won’t have been the only pissed-off rail passenger cheering last week when the King’s Speech announced plans to bring the private train operators back into public ownership when their current co...8 CommentsComment on Facebook
It should also be remembered that the same lunatics will still be running the asylum.
TSGN ends in 2028, not in 2025.
you cant polish a turd , too late all them horrid ugl ynew trains will never be like br days EVER...
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and please make it affordable for everyone, not just someone on business expenses
Now we need to bring back the lines that were closed in the 50s-80s when the population and the economy was much smaller.
Privatisation has failed. The railways have been in a bureaucratic mess. Whoever thinks this, he said that I was no closer to correcting him that the Big 4 was a success and BR was a failure. But by reading JK Lewis' acclaimed book about The Western's Hydraulics, it would tell us that they were actually run by the same people including some pre-grouping apprentices but it wasn't an entirely perfect arrangement.
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Repel the Draconian and outdated Dickensian Anti-TU laws afflicted on the movement by the Tories. That is a fundamental part of TU Labour relations!
i cannot believe for the second time in history, a Southern Railway and a Great Western Railway will become part of a British Railways..... its that nickel meme all over again...
I hope it happens and please look after the retired members of staff who were not protected
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