On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:16:39 +0100 in uk.transport.london, "Stimpy"
tapped out on the keyboard:


"David Winter"
wrote in message ...
Go to aus.rail for a blow by blow commentary by locals. Some subject
headers
refer to the Mil-lemon.

The only way out of this black hole is to restore vertically
integrated
railways with engineering cpability and an incremental approach to
technical
development.

But a vertically integrated railway is now effectively forbidden
within the EU.


If you mean by that a railway where only one operator is allowed, then yes,
vertical integration is ruled out except for urban or suburban lines - see
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19923060_en_1.htm


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