Thread: Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
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Old January 3rd 12, 05:15 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could ithappen here...??
On 01/01/2012 17:58, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
Are you Lüko's twin? That's a silly question. I would say things were
best at the end of the 1990s when the system was reunified and new
extensions had been added, but the adverse effects of privatisation
hadn't had time to kick in yet. Things have gone downhill since.

Terminological issues alert: from a UK perspective, DB and its German
subsidiaries are not privatised (or, if it is privatised, so was British
Rail from 1962-ish).


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