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**Chris** · 17-11-2019, 15:42

They are few and far between now, but they should have been gone long before now. Privatisation began in 1996 yet the wholesale replacement of the Northern and Transpennine fleets with new rolling stock designed and procured specifically for their services (I.e. not used stock cascaded from the southeastern franchises) has only properly got underway in the last 5 years.

Breaking up British Rail and devising a system of getting private investment back into the railway was a good idea in principle but there should have been a sharper focus on the social utility of the railway and not simply on where the quickest and easiest returns on investment are.

Old Boy’s unqualified comment about privatisation delivering shiny new trains is simply untrue.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,149	Re: Election 2019 - Week 2 They are few and far between now, but they should have been gone long before now. Privatisation began in 1996 yet the wholesale replacement of the Northern and Transpennine fleets with new rolling stock designed and procured specifically for their services (I.e. not used stock cascaded from the southeastern franchises) has only properly got underway in the last 5 years. Breaking up British Rail and devising a system of getting private investment back into the railway was a good idea in principle but there should have been a sharper focus on the social utility of the railway and not simply on where the quickest and easiest returns on investment are. Old Boy’s unqualified comment about privatisation delivering shiny new trains is simply untrue.