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Historians will almost certainly see the reductions in overall rail capacity in the UK since the 1950s as a combination of political ideology, mostly imported from the USA which had done much the same thing in the 1940s in order to create the 'Great American Car Economy' as it became known, plus...

It is certainly true that under public ownership BR funding for investment could be unpredictable and largely dependent on two things- the party in office and the state of the Economy.I worked for BR in Ops and in Financial Planning before and during privatisation and had dealings with the BRB...