Why is the UK so bad at railways?

[Magdalia]

Sunday travel only really took off after the Sunday trading laws changed in 1994.

 

[yorksrob]

Sunday travel only really took off after the Sunday trading laws changed in 1994.

Indeed. There wasn't a lot else to do before then, other than watch The Waltons.

 

[Silenos]

The biggest problem is the Government are trying manage at a level they don't belong. Setting strategic direction and approving borrowing on the public purse is one thing, but micro-managing pay disputes and specifying x number of services between 06:00 and 09:59 is not helpful.

You’re always going to get the latter while ministers have constituents who lobby them because the railway management for what it deems appropriate reasons has retimetabled Sir Grossly Bigdonor’s 8:36 service to Waterloo.