Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Yes there were some dodgy practices going on at the time too trying to force freight onto the roads away from the rails. Lorries mysteriously breaking down on level crossings and blocking the tracks for hours.
On paper it looked like it.made sense, but so many of the assumptions were flawed.

Royal Mail used to train masses of mail ,built there sorting offices alongside stations ,how eco friendly is that.

But you were at left at the fate of British Rail , which had a poor service ,and a heavy unionised body .