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Old April 2nd 09, 10:47 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:09:17PM +0100, tim..... wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote:
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.

Given that the rational for the sell off was to "improve the railways by
injecting competition" they were right.


Well, apart from the small matter of there not being any meaningful
competition.

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