In the UK the railways used to be kind of bad in the nationalised British Rail days. People moan about the current privatised rail but it mostly works.

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vintagedave 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is also extraordinarily expensive, and since the cuts in the 1960s you have a fraction of the railway lines. It is absolutely terrible.

Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days, but it sure needs some unification and central governance without a profit motive today.

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dash2 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days

I do. I was there. It wasn't.

	▲	tim333 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also if you look at the usage numbers they dropped off in the nationalised days and picked back up after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G... I was around but not a heavy rail user in the nationalised days though the stories back then were quite reminiscent of the current DB stories.

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gregorygoc an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Swiss trains are run by a national company and they’re great.