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Yeah, right.

How was the East Coast railway operated before Virgin took it over - it always seemed to be quite a good model for how a railway should operate, but then I know nothing about railways so i may be completely wrong?!

As a postscript to my previous comment above, I can also see why re- nationalising the railways would be an attractive alternative as it would re-integrate the disparate elements and remove vertical separation. But this assumes the re-nationalised railways would be well managed and would...

Ive been trying to understand the underlying causes of these problems for some time and this is the clearest explanation yet. That said, and as I understand it, some train operating companies around the country still manage to provide a service that their customers are reasonably happy with...

Something I don't understand about this dispute - why are RMT/ASLEF making such a fuss (possibly understandable on safety grounds) about the removal of guards from Southern services when, as I understand it, this has already happened on Thameslink services without so much as a public peep from...

4/5 years still to run. Two things seem likely then - 1. The government will not intervene and the contract will be allowed to run down with the current management and 2. The current levels of service will continue to deteriorate and deteriorate because of the current management On the...

Innocent question: how much longer has the franchise got to run?

Leaving aside their disastrous employee relations problems Southern do seem to have inherited just about the worst bit of track in the country, requiring constant engineering works to patch it up.