Friday, July 3, 2009

On the nationalisation of the East Coast mainline



a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioy20g2T8R79lC_bDLufsQFn4XJqjRu1Xury-1yLT4Iksksfeuogcm87XLhpvS8lo0KIXmOVTbEHH2B5QfLMyn6w_5xb43GKTx2mwgKSFxYkUFW7cKWj8HveGsBMJMUzJ5NmicAQG7YGMu/s1600-h/train.jpeg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 87px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioy20g2T8R79lC_bDLufsQFn4XJqjRu1Xury-1yLT4Iksksfeuogcm87XLhpvS8lo0KIXmOVTbEHH2B5QfLMyn6w_5xb43GKTx2mwgKSFxYkUFW7cKWj8HveGsBMJMUzJ5NmicAQG7YGMu/s320/train.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353603576149365954" border="0" //abr /About a decade and a half after the railways were privatised, the Government has ended up nationalising the East Coast mainline as National Express don't seem to want to run it any more on the terms they originally agreed. This a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/01/national-express-east-coast" article suggests /a the situation is one of privatising profits but nationalising losses.br /br /The best way of dealing with this would be for the Government to nationalise all the rail routes, rather than just the ones the private sector does not want. This would at least enable more of a joined-up system.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38622711-5088282590868213091?l=vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com'//div

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