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Originally Posted by Doug P
Southern Railway is a vast vast improvement on the same area in BR days. The stations are clean tidy and staffed by polite decent people. Yes there are delays but it is a vast improvement on the BR times and more trains run especially in the evening.
Connex inbetween BR and Southern were pretty dire but then wow![
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In the south east, toward the end, BR (South East Region) were actually pretty good. Then Connex took over, and it all went down hill massively. At one point, apparently according to their own figures, 75% of trains were late or cancelled, and they frequently run short trains in the rush hour.
Then they were essentially fired and replaced with the newly created South Eastern Trains who, in a couple of years, turned around those performance figures and improved the service massively.
They were replaced with South Eastern Railways. A private company that's doing a pretty good job of running the railways, but seems to be going down the run short trains route again.