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Up on the Oxford-Worcester mainline, Network Rail have just spent £69 million pounds rewidening it, and replacing a single track bridge with a new wider one. Why am I telling you this? Because NR is putting right a very serious and costly mistake from the early 70s when our nationalised British Rail were slashing the railways to pieces, continuing on from what Beeching the butcher had already started 10 years earlier.
The above is yet another example, but since the railways have been privatised once again, much new track relaying has taken place, along with many station`s reopened and routes relayed, with some in the pipeline for reopening and relaying at great expense. So who do we blame for all this expensive incompetence from years gone by? British Rail, or whatever political party was in power at the time? As BR were told how to spend their own money, it`s not hard to find who to blame.
My concern is that this multi-billion pound incompetence never happens again. As far as we`re concerned here in Dover, thank goodness there wasn`t another massive chalk fall between Dover and Folkestone in BR days, as it would surely have been long closed. Now, the Folkestone Harbour branch..................................