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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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.
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I would disagree about selling of the hotels. The Midland in Manchester, the Adelphi in Liverpool, the Queen's in Leeds plus a few more I stayed in back then were top notch - which they aren't now imo.
Of course my remarks are predicated on the railways never having been privatised, which they weren't (not privatised).
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