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Originally posted by scastle
Actually, it was unfair of me to place the blame for the quality of the railway on the previous government. It is true, most of the damage was done by Beeching.
However, service levels have deteriorated noticably (compared to the final year of nationalisation), and subsidies are now higher.
Having said all that, the current government have done nothing, despite all their promises to improve public transport..
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Railways are a complex issue. For example, privatisation actually reversed the decline in railway usage. Unfortunately it also destroyed a culture of best safety practice, and more or less killed off any hope of an integrated approach to running the network.
A heavily-regulated network operator and a small number of private service operators might have been more effective.