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Railway sector 'not attractive enough' for young engineers

There have been two noticeable changes affecting my journeys in the forty years I've been using trains. 1/ The move from corridoor trains to the current cramped, high background noise unpleasant mess. 2/ Since privatisation, I no longer feel that some jumped up little commissar feels he's doing me a favour by letting me on his train. I could add a (3) that time tabled journey times have often increased to artificially improve punctuality statistics. The failing is not in the availability of Engineers-which is a problem for all of us, but the lack of willingness to move our railway system into the latter half of the 20th Century, caused/ demonstrated by the closed shop attitude and the mistaking of grossly wasteful spending for investment.

3 May 2012

1:39 pm