Author Archives: George Stephenson Junior

Points and crossings

By George Stephenson Junior | Mon 2nd November 2015 - 11:14 am

Pretty much everyone seems to have an opinion about the railways, even those who don’t travel by train. I’ve worked in the railway for quite a long time now, spanning the nationalised British Rail and the current privatised structure. The current structure often frustrates me, but there have been some good things in recent years as well. The growth in passenger numbers over the last 15 years couldn’t have been dreamed of when I started work, for example.

However, what frustrates me most is that no-one, as far as I know, has ever evaluated whether the benefits of the current structure are outweighed by the disadvantages (I realise that this is a more general fault in public policy making).