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Ummm...I'm sure DoDo will be able to correct me if I'm wrong, but my (possibly faulty) recollection of travelling by train in New Zealand in 1997 is that the national timetable fitted onto half a page of a tri-fold leaflet.

So renationalising the service is quite possibly a smaller managerial undertaking than renationalising the bus service of a small town...

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by Sassafras on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 01:23:37 PM EST
Ummm...I'm sure DoDo will be able to correct me if I'm wrong, but my (possibly faulty) recollection of travelling by train in New Zealand in 1997 is that the national timetable fitted onto half a page of a tri-fold leaflet.

That's about right for national intercity passanger services.  And that was before they shut down a bunch of them.

Basically, our railways were bought by people who didn't want to run a railway, but instead were interested in asset stripping the company then flicking it off to another bunch of suckers.  Which they did.  So now the public (which has realised it actually needs railways) is going to have to pay to rebuild them.  Privatised profits, socialised risks in a nutshell.

by IdiotSavant on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 10:25:42 PM EST
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