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Originally Posted by swisstrains
"Big Business" and the government are playing games with what is essentially a public transport system. I am not totally against some private involvement but the system we have at the moment isn't fair to the millions of people who rely on the railways.
John.
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If the Tories wanted to privatise BR they should have kept it as one and sold off 65% to the stock market, 5.1% to the workers and the goverment keeping the remaining 29.9% to have effective control. The only bit of BR I would have totally privatised would have been the freight into two companies, one run by EWS and the other by Freightliner. There would also be a open access so companies like West Coast Railways could operate charter trains and GBRf run frieght trains.