Re: British Rail privatisation a disaster

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Ian Jelf wrote in message ...
>In article <35AE13BA.F1EC642E@cia.com.au>, robson <robson@cia.com.au>
>writes
>>The British House of Commons had a lengthy debate in February 98 on the
subject
>>of
>>railways and that rail privatisation has been a disaster. Makes
interesting
>>reading.
>>
>>Of course there need not be any lessons to learn because we always do it
>>right. We never blindly follow the mistakes of others, do we!
>DON'T DO IT, AUSTRALIA! :-)
>--
My impression is that EW&S railways have been quite optomistic about
business. You have to remember that Australian railways have always been
primarily freight haulers and these days aside of commuter trains there
would be no more than about 20 passenger trains running in Aust daily.

The lessons of the UK are rarely useful in Australia and the development of
railways here has borne that out for more than a century.


Barry Campbell