On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:58:06 -0000, Martin Underwood wrote in
, seen in
uk.railway:

What a mess our rail system has become: [...] Maybe I'm biassed because I can
remember a time when the railways were operated as a single entity with
joined-up thinking!

I'll tell you summat for nowt: it wasn't any time in the past 17
years.

BR didn't do joined up thinking, not in 1993, not in 1953.
It _was_ (IMO) better than the current joke, but don't make the
mistake of believing it was all that much better. The cracks just
weren't as obvious to outsiders.
--
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