It's almost like privatization creates less incentive for safety...

@johnkelly1083

Жыл бұрын

Shareholders are first priority under Tory rule. Got to keep the party donors happy

Safest privatized railway:

Then: We want to make money by making a better railway Now: We want to make money by lowering quality and bringing up quantity

Operating 'for profit' instead of a publicly funded service means corners are cut.

HOL UP HOW MANY PEOPLE WAS IN THAT FLIPPING LADBROKE GROVE TRAIN??

@BaileyChap

Жыл бұрын

I think the number of injuries was exagerated for that one (considering the only number I can find is 417) That said this was the number split across two different trains.

I might get shot here… I support free market economics for most Industries… but public services like rail, water electricity SHOULD and must always remain in public ownership! If our government has not learned this then we are fucked 😂

wow, i'm argentine and we had a same situation during the 90's when the trains were privatized I thinks we are the only country that this happend. Good luck british friends, don't lose your trains against the companies.

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My first question is how there was enough people on the Ladbroke Grove rail crash to even have that many injuries and deaths!

@BritishitRailPosting

Ай бұрын

Wikipedia goes with a lower count, as is common with crashes the figures can vary based on what evidence is used, but it was essentially a combination of two busy trains colliding after a lack of automated system to stop a train passing a red signal, and then the result of what happens when an old trainset with very bad crash characteristics meets a train built with a high specification.

0:19 used to live there between 2008 and 2020, heard about that recently. Ik its old i was just super young and have only just found out.

It still boggles my mind that Railtrack was ever allowed to exist in the form that it did. I seem to recall the QC at the inquiry into Hatfield referred to the failure to repair the over-worn rail despite many opportunities to do so as 'the worst case of negligence I have ever seen in any industry'. Just about sums it up. Love all your videos, btw.

@BritishitRailPosting

4 ай бұрын

What makes it infinitely worse is that BR already had widespread issues with maintenance going right back to the early 70s thanks to a lack of resources. The Tories simply didn't care, if people had to die to make sure they got their privatisation in, so be it.

These sounds perfectly encaptulate the departure of all those poor people from life. I feel especially sorry for the person who died from falling masonry (potters bar crash I think?), such an unexpected and tragic end.

Honestly it is mental people don't still talk about this when discussing privatisation

@BritishitRailPosting

4 ай бұрын

The lessons of history are oft forgotten, especially when in the current age any kind of nostalgia for Britain is frequently dogpiled upon.

Railtrack is the example of how to NOT privatize and hopefully the lessons learned from Railtrack will teach other governments a lesson on privatisation.

@caramelldansen2204

Ай бұрын

The only lesson on privatisation is: profit kills.

Gold.

@BritishitRailPosting

2 жыл бұрын

Make sure to link me your twitter!

Great video

Work for rail track 😂😂😂 its all contractors!

@BritishitRailPosting

Жыл бұрын

Ha, next you'll tell me the people who do the roads are contractors!

0:41 Shame such criticism is a thing of the past now, Network Rail are making the same mistakes...