Comment by vintagedave
1 day 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.
> Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days
I do. I was there. It wasn't.
Also 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_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.