Thanks for that Philip.
If our wonderful government had said something like..."To fix the problem of late running trains, we pledge £150 bilion to renew the run-down infrastructure", I might possibly have believed them to be serious.
But changing the name of the railway and pledging even more "Government Control" doesn't fix
anything.
The things that cause my trains to be delayed are ....
* A lack of Police to deal with drunken passengers
* Repeated Bridge Bashes by overheight vehicles
* Kids trespassing on the railway in school holidays
* Level crossing abuse by road users
* Points failures
* Signal failures
* Overhead Line Faults
* Software faults on the crap trains that the DfT chose.
Nothing the government has pledged will fix these problems.
So, if services become punctual as a result of this new 'Shake Up', I will happily eat my underpants.
Don't think I'm in any danger though. "A rose by any other name.....", as the good Bard used to say.
Feel free to disagree, this is just my 2P.
Cheers, John