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Well being a British Railways /British Rail man for 99% of my working life and now a railway pensioner, I am biased, I do not rate privatisation anyway, but having said that over here on the WCML, Virgin seems to be doing well and any delays are usually the fault of other departments and not the train operator. But the company that runs the Local services, a company called LONDON MIDLAND, have really been "going through the mill" recently, in the local press nearly every week. Running 4 car units instead of 8 or even 12, overcrowding, late running, so on and so forth.
Is it the fault of inexperienced train operating that causes this, people managing the running of these trains that think it is an easy job, who are new to railway life ?
Or is it money and the fact that they are not putting enough finance in to the job ?
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