The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization
by Wendover Productions
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Buy your custom domain or email for 10% off at http://Hover.com/HAIBuy a Wendover Productions t-shirt: https://standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/products/wendover-productions-shirtSubscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): https://www.youtube.com/halfasinterestingYoutube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductionsInstagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendoverTwitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverProSponsorship Enquiries: wendover@standard.tvOther emails: sam@wendover.productionsReddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductionsWriting by Sam DenbyResearch by Sam Denby and Tristan PurdyEditing by Alexander WilliardAnimation by Josh SherringtonSound by Graham Haerther Thumbnail by Simon BuckmasterSelect footage courtesy the AP ArchiveReferences[1] http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1979/1979-conservative-manifesto.shtml[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A31991L0440[3] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/294804/a4-tsr2-tables-2a-2f.pdf[4] https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage[5] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/295079/b-franchise-agreement.pdf[6] https://bettertransport.org.uk/sites/default/files/research-files/Tracks%20Report%20March%202017.pdf[7] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6182027.stm [8] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8127851.stm[9] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44142258[10] https://www.transportfocus.org.uk/publication/national-rail-passenger-survey-nrps-autumn-2014-main-report/[11] https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/rail-emergency-measures-during-the-covid-19-pandemic[12] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rail-franchising-reaches-the-terminus-as-a-new-railway-takes-shape[13] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49346642[14] https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/flash/fl_382a_sum_en.pdf; https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1548/rail-finance-statistical-release-2018-19.pdf[15] https://fullfact.org/economy/do-public-want-railways-renationalised/Musicbed SyncID:MB01WK2XIJ6Z6KV