Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
12-05-2023, 16:08
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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LNER no longer sell return tickets and have changed the pricing structure so you should have done unless someone else is paying.
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Someone else pays. I use it for business to and from London and the business pays.
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12-05-2023, 16:20
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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Someone else pays. I use it for business to and from London and the business pays.
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The only thing that would make my dream job even dreamier would be some occasional expenses-paid rail travel.
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On the subject of LNER though, the East Coast Main line is a relatively straightforward piece of infrastructure with very fast line speeds. Inter City services on that line ought to work well whoever’s running them. That’s ironically the common factor in all its commercial failures - GNER, National Express and Virgin/Stagecoach all over-bid and over-promised to get their hands on what they thought was a cash cow. They all failed and were stripped of the franchise.
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12-05-2023, 16:37
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
The railways should never have been privatised. The profit element is the opposite of providing a good service when there is a monopoly. The government got that entirely wrong and prolly for the wrong reasons too.
BUT - now that rotten government instead of lowering fares, want to keep that profit element, such as it may or may not be, to fill its coffers.
We can't win.
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12-05-2023, 17:11
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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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.
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12-05-2023, 17:16
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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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.
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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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12-05-2023, 18:36
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The railways should never have been privatised. The profit element is the opposite of providing a good service when there is a monopoly. The government got that entirely wrong and prolly for the wrong reasons too.
BUT - now that rotten government instead of lowering fares, want to keep that profit element, such as it may or may not be, to fill its coffers.
We can't win.
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On this l heartily agree with your sentiment.
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10-06-2023, 04:37
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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It would definately be a good thing if the railways were nationalised again.
There would need to be someone in charge who does it for the people, not for the money which is basically what every private firm has ever done.
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I agree. As far as I'm concerned the railways were STOLEN. The public owned them. Same for water, has and electricity.
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10-06-2023, 05:36
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The railways should never have been privatised. The profit element is the opposite of providing a good service when there is a monopoly. The government got that entirely wrong and prolly for the wrong reasons too.
BUT - now that rotten government instead of lowering fares, want to keep that profit element, such as it may or may not be, to fill its coffers.
We can't win.
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No argument here!
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11-06-2023, 19:44
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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I agree. As far as I'm concerned the railways were STOLEN.
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Well, they were sold.
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12-06-2023, 08:52
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
I think that privatisation should have worked, the rail system was built that way. But one big problem was measuring each company individually without thought of a national system. As a result, companies running one service would not wait even if they were effectively running a connecting service to a late running train. It's fine having individual companies running different sections but where routes utilised multiple companies there needed to be an overall plan too.
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12-06-2023, 09:35
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Re: Are the railways being quietly renationalised?
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I think that privatisation should have worked, the rail system was built that way. But one big problem was measuring each company individually without thought of a national system. As a result, companies running one service would not wait even if they were effectively running a connecting service to a late running train. It's fine having individual companies running different sections but where routes utilised multiple companies there needed to be an overall plan too.
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A key issue is that unlike the Thatcher privatisations, a lot of the railway system is loss-making so you can't just privatise and regulate or they would go to the wall.
However, they do bring a lot of economic and sustainability benefits so someone in government or in a government agency needs to decide where the subsidies should go.
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