In message , at 23:38:30 on
Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Tony Polson remarked:
The problems started in 1992, when the Tories were unexpectedly
re-elected with John Major as leader. The idiot had some misplaced
fondness for the days of the "Big Four" pre-1948 and allowed the
arch-privatisers to dismember the very successful Sectorised BR and
sell it off.

But as you know, he wanted to sell it off as integrated sectors, but the
*railway* industry told him that wouldn't work, and that it was
necessary to split things into the Railtrack/ROSCO/TOC system.
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Roland Perry