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.
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.
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.
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.
Given it was a HST coming one way and hitting a Turbo Networker coming the other way, it's no surprise there were that many casualties. It was around 8am too so they'll have been rammed with commuters. Eek.
Railtrack is the example of how to NOT privatize and hopefully the lessons learned from Railtrack will teach other governments a lesson on privatisation.
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.
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.
Safest privatized railway:
It's almost like privatization creates less incentive for safety...
Shareholders are first priority under Tory rule. Got to keep the party donors happy
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.
Honestly it is mental people don't still talk about this when discussing privatisation
The lessons of history are oft forgotten, especially when in the current age any kind of nostalgia for Britain is frequently dogpiled upon.
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.
We already lost them, but we might be able to get them back. I hope Milei doesn’t make the same mistake of selling them.
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.
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.
HOL UP HOW MANY PEOPLE WAS IN THAT FLIPPING LADBROKE GROVE TRAIN??
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.
Given it was a HST coming one way and hitting a Turbo Networker coming the other way, it's no surprise there were that many casualties.
It was around 8am too so they'll have been rammed with commuters. Eek.
Railtrack is the example of how to NOT privatize and hopefully the lessons learned from Railtrack will teach other governments a lesson on privatisation.
The only lesson on privatisation is: profit kills.
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.
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.
this is the best channel
My first question is how there was enough people on the Ladbroke Grove rail crash to even have that many injuries and deaths!
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.
Gold.
Make sure to link me your twitter!
Work for rail track 😂😂😂 its all contractors!
Ha, next you'll tell me the people who do the roads are contractors!
Great video
0:41 Shame such criticism is a thing of the past now, Network Rail are making the same mistakes...