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No Pain, No Train – The sorry state of British rail travel

No Pain, No Train – The sorry state of British rail travel

With the government announcing the nationalisation of Northern Rail, Felix Hanif-Banks take a quick look at the state of British railways and see if nationalisation is the holy grail it was promised to be

National Fail

Privatisation works by opening up services to a free market, which drives down prices and leads to innovation and improvements in customer service. These improvements over a nationalised system are born out of competition between different providers. The telecoms industry is an excellent example of where privatisation has worked to effect improvements; numerous providers offer […]