Train Strikes Doncaster 30/7/2022+Hartlepool(A) 20/8/2022

Yes

 

Certainly isn’t I had a friend from School who went to work at the then CEGB. They used to take their sleeping bags in and various games on night shift it was money for old rope. The old British railways cost the tax payer millions. I agree the franchise system on the railways has been poor but total nationalisation won’t work

 

Name any rail company on the planet that isn’t subsidised by the tax payer or National Government ?

Clue . There isn’t one Park.

Why, All countries respect the need for transport links as being part and parcel of the essential economic well being.

When Governments realise it’s a public facility for public use as opposed to a tool for generating profit and its run properly then a state owned and funded railway does work. Yes it costs , but essential public services do cost taxpayers money.

 

The subsidies paid to the private companies have increased by 200% since privatisation.

 

It will in the modern day and age. If it works in Italy, Germany, France it can be made to work here