(15 Dec 2023, 5:56 am)Unber43 wrote Just looking through FB, and the UK Railways have a tonne of problems, 

TFW Overcrowding 
XC not enough trains/overcrowding 
EMR Norwich to Liverpool overcrowding
GC 180's reliability
Replacement for TPE Class 69
Northern's 156/153 replacements (apparently Northern want 185 for that)
Avanti as a whole 
Appauling state of the Class 800 on LNER/GWR (seats, relability etc)

I think the only good train company really is East Anglia 


An absolute dumpster fire

(15 Dec 2023, 3:50 pm)deanmachine wrote Annoyingly, it's purely down to a lack of investment. The failed experiment of a privatised railway should be binned off, get the trains back off the leasing companies into public ownership, and stop paying the likes of First and Go Ahead to run the railways badly. All this money going to investors in dividends could be spent on maintaining and investing. Not to mention the fact that HS2 failing to come through is only going to make things worse on the already overcrowded mainlines.

(16 Dec 2023, 11:33 am)Storx wrote In fairness, being public wouldn't be much better. Network Rail is being decimated to pieces lately to the stage that 90% of the workers, by a survey by the RMT*, expect a serious incident within 2 years (https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/major-railway-incidents-more-likely-due-to-network-rail-cuts/)

We need a government interested in public transport first, otherwise it's just moving it from one place to another. The public Metro up here isn't exact a gleaming story success either, if anything - it's worse.

*Note potential bias as it's an union.

(16 Dec 2023, 3:21 pm)deanmachine wrote Yeah that's what I mean, it's all about investing in it. Like you say, no point in taking back control if there's no investment, both need to happen ASAP.