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Originally Posted by BBKing
The interface between the network company and the operating companies needs to be thought out in such a way that the network company has an interest in the trains running reliably and the operating company has an say in the track maintenance. Quite how you do that (bringing wheel and rail together) I really haven't a clue, but the state railway certainly requires a division that actually operates trains, partly to get the insanity of modern signalling practice ended.
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True, a State-owned monolith would be a bad thing (BR were better than the current lot at running the Railway, but they certainly weren't perfect).
However, if you get multiple organisations involved, you may end up with a situation like now, where problems are not being solved because the organisations involved are all blaming other organisations. If we can ensure that particular practice is stopped (God knows how). Still, if we do have a system as you describe above, some of the "blame" culture shown today will disappear.