The London commuter market was very well developed before BR came into
existence, mainly by the Metropolitan and the Southern Railways.

Were the 'Metropolitan' and 'Southern' private-sector companies? If so,
that's absolutely disgraceful, investing money in the hope of making a
profit at the expense of hard-working families. Investment in such things
should always be left in the hands of HM (that is, The People's) Treasury,
who make a much better fist of it. Look at the generous way they paid
for -sorry, funded - BR's plans in the post-war era.

S R

Were the 'Metropolitan' and 'Southern' private-sector companies? If so,
that's absolutely disgraceful, investing money in the hope of making a
profit at the expense of hard-working families. Investment in such things
should always be left in the hands of HM (that is, The People's) Treasury,
who make a much better fist of it. Look at the generous way they paid
for -sorry, funded - BR's plans in the post-war era.

S R

Are you kidding? If it hadn't been for the private companies there would be no
railways in this country. Lots of private companies ploughed in loads of money
to build networks often with very little return in the long run. And of course
they wanted to make profit, just like we all go out to work every day, not
because we want to do good but because we want to earn a living.

Its a fact of life.

Paul

"Moylanhome" wrote in message
...

Were the 'Metropolitan' and 'Southern' private-sector
companies? If so, that's absolutely disgraceful, investing
money in the hope of making a profit at the expense of
hard-working families. Investment in such things should
always be left in the hands of HM (that is, The People's)
Treasury, who make a much better fist of it. Look at the
generous way they paid for -sorry, funded - BR's plans
in the post-war era.

Are you kidding?

That would be my guess.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

"S R" wrote in message
...

The London commuter market was very well developed before BR came into
existence, mainly by the Metropolitan and the Southern Railways.

Were the 'Metropolitan' and 'Southern' private-sector companies? If so,
that's absolutely disgraceful, investing money in the hope of making a
profit at the expense of hard-working families. Investment in such things
should always be left in the hands of HM (that is, The People's) Treasury,
who make a much better fist of it. Look at the generous way they paid
for -sorry, funded - BR's plans in the post-war era.


Assuming you not attempting to be humorous, (but that you really do have a
pitiful lack of knowledge of British railway history) British Railways came
into existence on the 1st January 1948. Prior to that all railways had been
privately established and owned, although with significant government
interference.

In message , Brimstone
writes
Were the 'Metropolitan' and 'Southern' private-sector companies? If so,
that's absolutely disgraceful, investing money in the hope of making a
profit at the expense of hard-working families. Investment in such things
should always be left in the hands of HM (that is, The People's) Treasury,
who make a much better fist of it. Look at the generous way they paid
for -sorry, funded - BR's plans in the post-war era.


Assuming you not attempting to be humorous, (but that you really do
have a pitiful lack of knowledge of British railway history) British
Railways came into existence on the 1st January 1948. Prior to that all
railways had been privately established and owned, although with
significant government interference.
I'm not entering into this debate, but I find it interesting, you recall
that when I started work on the railways in 63 a lot of the drivers were
employed by the private companies before becoming B.R. and all agreed
that the change was from chasing profit to chasing safety.
--
Clive.