PEAK RUSH HOUR IS A GOOD TIME to gauge the mood of Britons traveling to and from work on the country's decrepit trains. Social media will tell all you need to know: delays; cancellations; and dirty, cramped conditions. But commuters have little choice.When the U.K.'s railways were on the cusp of privatization, the public was sold a very different outcome."The best way to produce profound and lasting improvements on the railways is to end British Rail's state monop-oly," the Conservative Party's 1992 manifesto said.
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