[jplrssn]

It’s ironic that after British Rail was privatized, many UK rail services ended up being run by subsidiaries of other European state railways: French SNCF, Dutch NS, Italian Trenitalia, and so on. Turns out the state knows something about running trains after all.

[arethuza]

For a while Abellio ran rail services in Scotland - they were absolutely awful and things got a lot better almost immediately the Scottish Government terminated their franchise.