I had an exchange with someone yesterday who maintained that BR was rubbish and that privatised rail services were much better. I asked for a source, first I got "google it" then something about knowledge he has got from his love of railways (not sure how I was going to Google that, but whatever). Anyway, it prompted me to dig this out, which contains a lot of data about how efficient BR had got by the 90s, when Major sold it off:
http://turniprail.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/no-steven-norris-in-1990s-british-rail.html?m=1
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