tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post6333867956624008550..comments2023-12-23T20:09:27.185+00:00Comments on The Curmudgeon: Not Another Mid-StaffsPhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post-67120781948249679022013-05-04T00:07:27.462+01:002013-05-04T00:07:27.462+01:00You may well be right. I thought they just changed...You may well be right. I thought they just changed the name to Network Rail, but no doubt it was more complicated and less sensible than that.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post-27877322287835521392013-05-03T18:48:46.975+01:002013-05-03T18:48:46.975+01:00I think you mean Railtrack, not Network Rail.
Ma...I think you mean Railtrack, not Network Rail. <br /><br />Major's government created Railtrack as a a public sector body that they promised not to privatise until suddenly one day they did. Railtrack was thus a private monopoly in charge of a national asset, 95% of railway lines in the country. It was ugrading the mainline out of Euston without a coherent plan, burning public money, and did Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com