From Thursday we can expect to hear a series of announcements outlining how much railway the country can afford.
Amusing of course that it is a Tory Government that is being forced to make these difficult decisions.
Perhaps if they had listened in the first place then we wouldn't be in this mess?
Here a siren voice from August 1993:
"I get the feeling from talking to Government ministers that they see the post-privatisation British Rail as the same public service we have today, but with a Marks & Spencers private enterprise gloss.
"They seem to forget that private enterprise also gave us Maxwell, Barlow Clowes, BCCI et al.
"The scope for making a lot of money out of running railways, to the ultimate disbenefit of the traveller, is I suspect, considerable."
How prescient of Captain Deltic, for it was he.
Meanwhile, as the axe comes down, don't forget who got us into this mess.
