Again your zeal for markets has made you less than perceptive on the subject of railways ("Uncoupling the trains", November 10th). A dispassionate view would recognise that few railway journeys have a competing alternative service. Together with the long-term investment required, which is well beyond the means of private companies without taxpayers' support, the case for rail as a state enterprise is clear. In Britain trains were privatised in the 1990s by John Major, who was desperate to notch up an achievement.
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