It's Careering Off the Rails, so Let's Privatise

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So a standard Cardiff-London return will cost pounds 132 - a helluva lot more than I pay to go to Spain. Reminds me of the time I used to call John Major the patron saint of train-spotters - well wasn't he the archetypal anorak? Now he's the patron saint of train- owners.

When he told me his ideal rail system would be modelled on Thomas the Tank Engine, big beaming faces on the front of every loco, no manager weighing less than the Fat Controller, I said: 'John, you're joking.'

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It's Careering Off the Rails, so Let's Privatise

But we stopped laughing when he came up with an even dafter idea: privatisation. Except for some former British Rail managers who still can't stop laug...

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