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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The railways should never have been privatised.
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Thatcher didn't want to. It was her successor John Major who pushed it through and it's evolved from there.
Few would disagree with selling off the cafes, hotels, ferries, train manufacturing and perhaps the freight operators too.
Selling off the network infrastructure itself was clearly wrong.
The passenger train operators have been a very mixed bag ranging from the very good at GNER and Chiltern through to the appalling at Connex and Trans Pennine Express.