In the world we actually inhabit, the private companies have done a horrendous job of running the railways. You obviously don't use them. If all the private companies were owned by the Government tod… (View Post)

The graph starts going up prior to privatisation. I've told you this before. And you obviously don't use trains very much. I don't travel by SWR because I love the service, I travel that way because … (View Post)

No they don't lose money, you don't seem to understand the new GBR model. They get paid a guaranteed sum every year, they are guaranteed a profit. (View Post)

Also nonsense, if my train is an hour and half late I can't do anything else because I have no other way to travel. There is no competition on railways. Privatisation is a con. (View Post)

Nobody seems to want to answer my question: under the new GBR arrangement, what is the BENEFIT of paying First Group to run the railways? (View Post)