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Thanks for the welcome! My sentiments are well and truly framed by the British Railways/British Rail era and although I wish I could say something nice about privatisation I find it difficult. EMUs/DMUs everywhere, standing room only on long distance trains, no joined-up-railway-thinking! Let's get back to the 'can do' 70's and 80's where nothing was too much trouble and you could use one ticket for an entire journey! Yeah the DMU's were manky, the sandwiches in the buffet were of uncertain antiquity and the station toilets were straight out of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes but hey, we had a railway that was OURS...not some bloody shareholders or entrepreneurs who only thought of the 'bottom line'....not necessarily a 'railway line.'!
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