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Privatisation
ruination of our trains
profiteers clean up
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by Scooj
* The trains in England are a disgrace and an embarrassment. Visitors from overseas must be utterly bewildered by how bad our train services are.
Underfunded, with profits being creamed off by shareholders.
Why on earth do we put up with it? People will pay hugely inflated prices only to stand on a train, sometimes for several hours. Oversubscription is the norm, which must have implications for health and safety of passengers.
Surely if every passenger had to book a seat, sales would be curtailed when the train was full. I believe that is the system in America.
Delays, cancellations and reduced carriages are the norm. Often the electronic booking systems are broken. Encountering a ticket inspector/guard is a rarity.
Even if you get a seat, trains are grubby and cramped. Food and refreshment services patchy and expensive. The whole thing makes for deeply unpleasant experiences. It wasn’t always like this, and people used to mock British Rail!
Nationalise and subsidise the trains or set higher standards/penalties for operators.
The Privatisation obsession of Thatcherite Britain has failed its people but made a privileged few unimaginably wealthy. Disgusting.
Natural adventures 
Showing how shitty it is all over
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Yep.
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‘Grubby’ is not the word. Filthy is the word. The first thing I do when I get home from a trip on a Cross Country train is put all my clothes in the wash and take a shower! Their trains are so old now and well overdue for replacement. I recently travelled from Windsor to Waterloo on South West Rail – it was a commuter type train – a bit like the Elizabeth Line trains but very clean and no carpeting. Why do they have carpets on train floors in trains anyway ffs?
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I have the joy of a cross country trip to Birmingham tomorrow.
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Trains? We used to have trains, trashed by privateers!
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Yep.
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