The responses to an article by Christian Wolmar about the state of British railway services and the need for nationalisation
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Christian Wolmar is right to raise serious concerns over the possibility of major cuts to the rail network (UK railways are heading into a perfect storm. Now is the time to nationalise them, 10 January). But I’m not convinced that his solution of nationalisation is the answer. He says that there’s an opportunity for “a publicly owned, integrated railway, run independently of state interference”. I’d say that was a contradiction in terms, and a return to a centralised British Rail would be subject to the whims of the Treasury, as it is now.
That doesn’t mean we should stick with the unsatisfactory hybrid of a privately delivered, publicly specified railway. We need to learn from other European railways, where publicly accountable regional transport authorities run efficient rail networks, sometimes directly owned by the local state.
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