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l am just about old enough to remember British Rail and it was severely unloved and underfunded by successive governments of both political persuasions over many years and they were the ones who failed it in the end.

Rail privatisation since has failed nearly on every count as we have some of the highest fares and yet receive one of the worst services in Europe and sadly its always the passenger that picks up the bill.

Since privatisation, fares have increased above inflation for a large number of routes and the ticketing system is ridiculously complicated for many plus we have severe capacity problem's on large parts of the network and antiquated rolling stock which is still on many lines in large parts of the country so when some espouse that privatisation has been a great success then sadly they are very much a small minority as the vast majority are clearly very unhappy with things as they stand.