@@thegdpwhytea439 'British Rail and the nationlisation shut down thousands of miles of rail track' Thats what happens when your so underfunded you need to save money.

@@AardVarkieW woops, looks like someone's shit-spouting comment got deleted 😌

@@AardVarkieW The lines were ripped up because Marples had stocks and investments in road construction and ripping up the rails would make number go up. Saving money was just the lie they sold to placate the general population.

@@AardVarkieW if only they could somehow rebuild those bits of track. I’d be so unbelievably happy.

​@@ConfusedOxygen some bits have

I see why that is

@@Repulse_The_First certainly

I can totally agree

Nostalgia

@@thebritishempire8754 Io sono stato negli anni 40 e 50 a Londra , ma poi per problemi di salute sono ritornato in Italia .

Thats perfect. What era are you modelling?

@@thebritishempire8754 era 5 to 8 but I'm mainly focusing on BR green diesels and the pride of the fleet is my new APT

@@Reaper1770 that is very nice.

Sounds fun!

Both are fascist hellholes, but one is significantly more corrupt, with an upperclass who detests everyone and everything. When you own what you are policing and regulating, you aren't going to de very good job, it would hurt profits.

@@radfoxuk8113 and that is britain correct?Pardon me im not too knowledgable about this subject.

@@chieftainmk_11 Yeah. All our services, meaning i the aame form as military, like a duty to be done for the good of the society were sold off, privatised: air, rail, water, electricity, gas(?), telephones... We tore up tracks to "small" communities in the 60's, Dr. Beeching, privatised the rail, "to make it more affordable and better furnished", and we still subsidise passenger rail, we pay taxes that cover some rail usage and still pay for tickets, all the money goes to faceless shareholders, rather than into the government, for public good. If you steal a public good from the public it becomes neither public nor good. Everyone calls our right wing party, the Conservative Party, the Tories for good reason, it means thief or bandit in old Middle Irish Gaelic. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party) When Japan privatised their main lines it remained good due to the public's reliance on it, similar to the UK's Royal Mail, despite privatisation it's still essentially the same system, it's too essential to screw it up. Shame about the undergound mail railways, they were cool, and didn't block narrow city roads with huge lorries.

@@radfoxuk8113 Japans main train company JR is a licensed monopoly by the japanese goverment but doesnt abuse its power of being a monopoly,Owning the property around its rails (Say theres an apartment next to train tracks its owned by JR now) and its massive revenue is a testament to the japanese honesty,culture and standards.

Conflict of interest. That's the difference

Amtrak has three main problems: 1. It was an "out" for private rail companies to be allowed to throw away non-profitable rail services 2. It, itself, is required to turn a profit 3. It must lease trackage from other rail companies in most locations Initially, Amtrak was only meant to run intercity trains, and in most case that is all that it has. The private rail companies were mandated to keep commuter service, but as rail requirements continue to laxen, they were able to drop those services as well.

Ngl, my favourite train journey was la to abq

@@geekchris105 The leasing trackage from other companies is a huge problem because it means it's very difficult for Amtrak to get track upgraded. This can pretty much only be solved with nationalization.

If you know who the content creator is, tell them to oppose the copyright strike if it's from MGM. This video was taken down immediately after uploading, however MGM didn't bother to reply to my counter-claim after I hit them with a few paragraphs of common sense.

It pains me that the Army Appropriations Act of 1916 wasn't permanent If it was, our country would've avoided losing its frequent and expansive passenger lines due to corporate mismanagement

We thank you alot for that. 🙏

That’s Chris Green from Network SouthEast.

And not a braindead way of making money either! This is what most modern capitalists don't understand. Poor public service does not equal greater profits, especially not in the long-term.

@@BritishTrainspotting They all clearly failed the "one biscuit now, or 2 later" test. But in all seriousness it is the inevitable end result of our chumocracy basically allowing you to fail upwards if you're friends with the right people. I don't think you can look at any business head or political figure in the UK and wholeheartedly believe that they are the result of meritocracy.

@@Reddsoldier Absolutely!

It wasn't even about profit, it was about putting money back into the system. (Some people call that "socialist")

What’s inherently wrong with fascism?

@@ns7353 dude.

Exactly, 90% of them are just "technology bad", "non-toxic masculinity bad", "womens rights bad" or some variety of racism/xenophobia. Focus on things that were ACTUALLY lost, not romanticisation of a past that never existed.

@@ns7353 bro really asking what's wrong with extream authoritarianism and state violence

@@ns7353 brother..

And British Rail Engineering Limited

@@davidty2006 Yes that! We need to bring back our British built trains for British purposes.

did you ever go on it and not get mugged assaulted or murdered, because thats how it was after years of little to no investment. the only reason why British rail had a golden period in the late 80s and 90s is due to more private sector involvement and running the cooperation for profit. do your research its not hard to see.

@@fsstickman1 nope

back again, 6 months after that

and also: End Subsidies of The Interstate Highways. End subsidies of the Airline Industry.

They're snuck in there! I try not to focus on steam since it isn't a favourite of mine, and its during a time when BR isn't all that relevant to the common person.

@@BritishitRailPosting Yeah but they were beautiful and its a time when that was the main way of transport so from that view it could be considered a golden age for railway

I believe BR's true golden age was at the height of the 80s. Steam-era british railways didn't have much in the way of competition, later era BR had to compete against personal motor vehicles, airlines, and coaches.@@Copium6921

@@BritishitRailPosting Fair Enough but i personally think Steam deserved a few clips but it was still a great edit

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It is from the BBC Four documentary "The Age of The Train"@cpasimportant

Ha! The David Mitchell rant is one that's playing in my mind daily, good shit!

Ayyyy kieran! Nice pride pfp!

@@caramelldansen2204 Thanks :)

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There are various videos used in this clip that I simply won't be able to trackdown by now- however all of them are available on KZfaq, and can often be found by googling around the class numbers of the rolling stock you see

Make sure to link it here when it's done!

It's in the title! MGMT - Little Dark Age

Many councils are so skint that they're not even a year away from complete bankruptcy. Another Tory miracle.

@@BritishitRailPostinghalf of it is due to corruption no doubt in my mind

> Privatised organisations They were the enemy.

@@BritishitRailPosting Sod off

@@BritishitRailPosting they were responisble for the golden age of the railways

100%! Just make sure you link it as a reply to this comment so I can see it too! I don't use any other platforms, I love seeing where my content ends up!

Ok will do! Sorry for the late reply

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@@The_Midland_MainLine_Guy that's been blocked here in the UK :/

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It still regressed. No excuse to go backwards.

Derbyshire County Council m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7N9d5CCusvdnac.html

@@BritishitRailPostingNgl that’s actually quite funny lol

Deranged opinion.

azuma is probably one of the worst trains in service right now bloody thing shakes more than any other mainline train serving london

@@choppership465 never had that and I have been on a lot of azumas. Actually one of the best journeys I have ever done was from york to london on 801215 like up there with like spains high speed trains

Pacers helped preserve BR branchlines, its just a shame that they were simply being preserved for privatised entities to take over. Whilst the Pacers should have died long before they did, that's not an issue that is on BR's doorstep, and they should be respected as the last-ditch effort that they were- without them we'd be in a far worse situation than we are now.

@@BritishitRailPosting For all of BR's upsides, they were still led by capitalist pigs who can just starve the rail industry if doing so makes oil barons and automotive cartels more money at the cost of the human race!

My channel has generally tried to avoid being political up until now, and "New Labour" has a decent share of the blame for allowing the privatised nonsense to continue- however the Tories' continued behaviour regarding public utilities shows that they're simply a no-vote when it comes to respecting and defending the public resources of this country.

@@BritishitRailPostingPlease continue with these montages and maybe show how a government can ruin an amazing railway system with neglect and making it an excuse to privatise. The Torie rewarded Avanti a 9 year contract and yet the Tories have the attitude to say "We don't want to take the train when its Avanti".

This video will, for now, stand as the most politically pointed one. I'm sure another politicky video will show itself once our elections are over.@@Mgameing123

@@BritishitRailPosting Alright!

at lest we have clean functioning trains

@@fsstickman1 They could be a whole lot cleaner and a whole lot more functional.

@@mysteriousstranger6857 you clearly didn’t experience what British rail was like for most of its life only the resurgence in the 90s as a result of for profit operation

@@fsstickman1 When you privatise an industry a temporary resurgence is inevitable due to an influx of new investors. However the industry gets severely harmed in the long term as profits are given back to those investors in the form of dividends without being put back into the company. This leads to higher ticket prices and worse quality of service.

@@mysteriousstranger6857that’s not what i said br had a resurgence in the 90s followed by a lot investment from the private sector which led to a much better service sure it’s still unreliable and expensive but a commuter from the 70s would give anything for the service we have today

Hey didn't they just ask British Rail for a train design?