Tag Archives: british rail

Our British privatised railways – a dog’s dinner or the envy of the World?

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    Last weekend, there was major chaos & disruption experienced by thousands of rail commuters at Kings Cross & Paddington, two of London’s biggest stations. This resulted from ‘overrunning engineering work’ undertaken by Network Rail over the Christmas break [NR run the infrastucture of rails and statione etc]. This is just another nail in the […]

What the heck have the politicians done to us and our Country? Destruction of the Railway system [3]

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It’s full steam ahead for HS2 then. This unbelievably expensive (35£billion and rising?)) controversial, and high risk project is now coming down the tracks apparently. Hang on a minute; we are talking about getting some real trains running up North in 20 years! In the noble age of railways it was a nationalised entity and […]