Telegrammed by The Raver
Rewriting history is plainly becoming something of a habit for the denizens of rail privatisation.
Railway Eye readers may recollect Nigel Harris's recent confusion over the average age of rolling stock at privatisation
The latest purveyor of samizdat history is one Richard Bowker who, in a Sunday Telegraph puff-piece this weekend, claimed that 14,000 trains a day were running on the network in 1997 compared to approximately 20,000 today.
The true figure for the number of trains operating on the network in '97 is much closer to 18,500.
In the scheme of things not overly important, but National Express shareholders may wish to scrutinise this year's annual report and accounts a little more closely - just in case.
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