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Originally Posted by Chris
The problem with renationalisation in the current model is that it is only designed to ensure the trains keep running when a franchise fails. Services are run in a way that maintains the existing service but there’s no long term plan for investment or service development.
Northern would be saved from collapse in the sense that the trains would continue to operate (subject to driver and stock availability, and the absence of the wrong sort of leaves or snow), but it would not solve the network’s structural problems. The routes between major cities are often too slow, unelectrified and served by outdated stock. The solution to all of that is an absolute shedload of cash.
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We keep paying them substantial fare increases every year, the reasons they give is to provide improve the service. It obviously isn't going into improvements:- same 1980s diesel sheds on wheels. Suspect it all gone to the SE. Privatisation has been an utter failure on the railways.