I like the blaming of the EU and Labour in particular for the selling off of our industry. A short history primer on privatisation, methinks. I mean, feel free to blame New Labour (I do), but it's not Labour, per se.
I like the blaming of the EU and Labour in particular for the selling off of our industry. A short history primer on privatisation, methinks. I mean, feel free to blame New Labour (I do), but it's not Labour, per se.
It's not selling off the industry, but that industry was ruined by nationalisation.
It's not selling off the industry, but that industry was ruined by nationalisation.
As a slight train nerd, it's because the franchising system just doesn't work. There's issues nationwide with a lot of operators, and I believe only one network is currently operated by the government (via its 'Operator of Last Resort'). That network is LNER, and I believe it's been relatively successful, and soon its fleet will have been fully upgraded to modern trains. Class 43s got taken out of service last year, and I believe the Class 91s are due to leave service this year - it's already in progress.That must be the reason that May and now BoJo start renationalising railways
As a slight train nerd, it's because the franchising system just doesn't work. There's issues nationwide with a lot of operators, and I believe only one network is currently operated by the government (via its 'Operator of Last Resort'). That network is LNER, and I believe it's been relatively successful, and soon its fleet will have been fully upgraded to modern trains. Class 43s got taken out of service last year, and I believe the Class 91s are due to leave service this year - it's already in progress.
Northern is the next one to face being operated by the OoLR, as it is one of the lowest-performing operators in the country. Constantly running late, delayed trains, overcrowding, high number of cancellations and it also doesn't function. Two operators were merged into Northern, but they both essentially operate independently with little-to-no communication between them. Their stock is largely not fit for service, and actually a lot of it doesn't meet the accessibility requirements that were due to be enforced at the beginning of this year. They've had some new trains, but I believe there are delays with others.
I believe South Western Rail are possibly the third to face the OoLR, but that isn't as imminent as Northern's takeover, which I believe begins this week.
Got to love scientific papers with bar charts straight out of Excel without even checking to see if the axes are stupid or not.
Yes and no. There's really only one current example (LNER) who seem to be doing well. But that doesn't mean it's necessarily the best solution. The true summary is "the franchising of the British rail networks did not work".can I summarise that in:
the UK is better off when the government takes back control of the railways ?
As commom sense decision ?
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What is wrong with the axes ?
Well it's a percentage scale and it goes up to 120. And isn't labelled as a percentage scale either. But other than that it's great
And also I get that changing format just for the sake of changing format doesn't really have any point, but personally I just think leaving absolutely everything as the straight-out-of-the-box Excel default just looks cheap and nasty. Like a school report.
but the first bar stopping bang on 100 made it look like this was the upper limit (which it intuitively would be as well).
(which it intuitively would be as well)
Three days until Brexit!
@Arakhor: Will we make a new thread then? Even though this one isn't very long, I'd think the occasion warrants it.
Don't know what the rest of you are doing, but I'm preparing my third Brexit party, to celebrate the disempowerment of the Tory's in Europe, and to hope and toast for a close and tight relationship between the EU and UK once the transition period runs out.
Once again, your own country isn't even in the Eu, fcol
Well, you aren't in the Eu either, m8