Not fit for purpose
I FOUND Chris Milner’s excellent rolling stock article very interesting (February issue). Prior to Covid-19, I enjoyed rail travel for leisure and pleasure. Age and potential risk put an end to that, and I am only now tentatively starting to travel again.
His article encapsulated some of the pitfalls of rail travel. I want to avoid overcrowded trains for obvious reasons. It is shameful that almost new rolling stock, like Mk.5 coaches, are now seemingly redundant.
There seems to be a lack of planning coupled with over-interference from the Government’s Department for Transport, which frankly makes a nonsense of what Privatisation is about.
It strikes me that the difference between the former nationalised system and the incoherent system we have
