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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Train wreck: How to turn around Britain’s railways
Description: Anyone who uses Britain’s railways can see things aren’t running smoothly. How do we solve this mess? From cancelled trains and driver shortages, to the rolling series of strikes, a nation that once prided itself on its railway appears to have let services go off the rails, as it were. Christian Wolmar, author of British Rail: A New History, joins Ros Taylor in The Bunker to find out what needs fixing.
“It’s absolutely ideological…it wouldn’t cost anything to take these franchises back”.
“The department of transport is demanding productivity increases along with a pay...