I agree Jim.

I have said all along that Beeching's plan was vandalism.

However, the idea of re-nationalisation now is a pipe dream. There is no way that the British taxpayer would accept the cost in extra taxation.

You get, I'm afraid, what you are prepared to pay for, and there is little likelihood that people with no practical train service to the places they wish to travel to, will view with equanimity the prospect of paying more to subsidise the fares of high earning commuters.

Just playing devil's advocate, you understand, since my income doesn't reach taxable levels, and renders train travel way out of my budget's reach.

Incidentally, (for information only, not discussion) I do believe that some infrastructure should be kept in public ownership.

Public Transport
Energy Companies
Water Companies
Telephone Companies
Ports and Harbours
and emphatically the NHS

I said I was a left wing Tory, and I never said that they hadn't ever f**ked up (this for RB, who believes they never did anything else but f**k up).

Don T.