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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Rail: ‘This is where we are, but it is definitely not where anybody wants to be’

North point: Edinburgh Waverley station, with LNER and Lumo trains - (Simon Calder)

“In my previous life, I ran an organisation, at Transport for London, where everything that went wrong was my fault.”

That was the rail minister, Lord Hendy, addressing the transport select committee this week. Since he spoke to MPs, an awful lot has gone wrong with the railways in the UK.

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