There's a lot on that site and the tragic history of rail loss, from 1910 onwards, makes for depressing reading.
Today, rail travel is clean, quick and highly efficient but those that promoted and made money, often vast amounts, from the burgeoning car industry take immense delight in pointing to the failure of the very country that created the concept of the rail network, and the train, losing its way and being hacked apart whilst simultaneously being shackled to an obsolete model of state ownership.
A visit to many other countries around the world and riding on their trains is a revealing journey, and shows how the mixed economy works perfectly when it's supported properly.
