Will the UK's (re-nationalised) railway be heading back into troubled waters?

摘要

Many people may still not have realised it, but the report we carried in last month's Headline News section on the reclassification of Network Rail's debt means that Britain's railway network will once again become a nationalised concern when the change takes effect on September 1. It may seem unusual for an industry to be taken into public ownership during the tenure of a Conservative government, but it's actually been forced on the UK by changes in European Union law. Since the news broke, politicians and NR executives have been busy assuring the public that it's an accounting measure and that nothing on the ground will change.