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Originally Posted by cjmillsnun
Great Heck was the only accident where the railways had no blame, and that tw*t who fell asleep at the wheel of his car ought to be shot.
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However you can point a finger toward the railways. The French TGV network has a fairly simple cable arrangement around all road bridges. If these cables are snapped (by say a car landing on them) all signal in the area trip to red slowing / stopping trains and preventing or reducing the speed of the collision.
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Originally Posted by BBKing
Socially necessary services should be state-run though.
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I think the way Virgin and GNER have managed to improve the onboard service is a good thing that would not have occurred without privatisation. However onboard service and rail marketing are both things that could be subcontracted, leaving the driving as part of the combined train / rail network interface.
Socially Necessary services can be subsidised. British Airways still recieved state subsidy to run routes to the Scottish Islands that would never be economically viable. This could be shown to be a successful privatisation of a socially necessary route.
/RantOn
And I love how they screw the regular commuters when things go wrong. I commute from Hertford North, the branch loop near Hatfield / Potters Bar. This loop can take about 10 trains an hour.
After both crashes, my commuter services were suspended to enable GNER to get their ICs through, so long distance services continued, but the thousands of commuters could not get to work. Where is the logic in that?
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