Thanks, Richard, I was just about to call Greenhough out for the usual clanging ignorance, but you put it more eloquently. SWT is the nearest thing* to rolling back the damaging operational fragmentation caused by rail privatisation, being a public private alliance with a single operating model and joint operating team. They emphasis teamwork and focus on the railway rather than trying to pretend competition matters more than co-operation and everything is best sorted out via contracts and lawyers. Applying your favourite public/private sector ideological preference to railways without adequate research usually ends up tripping over something important. So don't. * Other than London Overground, which is a private company** delivering a public service to a public sector specification, by TfL. ** Except that it's co-owned by the state railways of Germany and Hong Kong

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
South west trains	01/05/15 13:52:00	Peter Milligan
Re:South west trains	01/05/15 14:06:00	Dan Murphy
Re:South West Trains	01/05/15 14:17:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:South West Trains	01/05/15 15:51:00	Jonathan Bingham
Re:Re:South West Trains	01/05/15 16:42:00	Richard Jennings
Re:Re:Re:South West Trains	01/05/15 17:18:00	Thomas Barry
Re:South West Trains	03/05/15 18:12:00	Richard Greenhough

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