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10 reasons not to privatise any part of Network Rail

How the government plans to privatise Network Rail is putting the chance for publicly owned railway out of reach for good.

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Brian Robert Marshall, some rights reserved

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

Recently I was at a meeting where private investors were invited to pitch to the Department for Transport about why and how they could get involved in running bits of our rail infrastructure. The meeting was called because Nicola Shaw is shortly going to publish a report to the Government recommending what should be done with Network Rail, the body responsible for maintaining and improving our national rail infrastructure – the tracks, tunnels, signalling and 18 major stations.