If only British railways where more like the Japanese ones

Today it was reported that a Japanese train company had to make a national apology when a train left a train station 20 seconds early and it was a national scandal. This is comedy gold to the British public. Have you seen the state of our railways? 

I had to commute to London on a regular basis when I was a university student and if I had a pound for everytime that I was delayed or inconvenienced by strikes, delays and my personal favourite, bloody signal failures, then I would be writing this blog from a mansion in central London, living debt free after paying of my student loans and would still have enough to pay off my Mum's mortgage here in Crawley. 

The state of our railways is a complete disaster and when you have to pay top rate prices for a service that is shocking, it is an absolute disgrace.

It is debatable that our railway is the most expensive and unreliable service in Europe and even in the world and they never take responsibility for their actions so seeing a country like Japan apologise such a minor offence was hilarious.

Japan's railways are in public hands and this is something that I have long argued for in Britain and was pleased that this policy was put on the Labour Manifesto in 2017. A national railway that puts the needs of passengers before the needs of greedy private ccompanies. 

Britian's railways started being privatised by the conservative government between 1994 and 1997 using the railways act 1993 and since then the travel costs for commuters have gone up alarming rates and the service has actually slipped down.

Britain is light years ahead of other countries when it comes to major issues such as LGBT rights, abolishing the death penalty, decromacy and multi-culturalism but when it comes to railways, it seems that we are light years behind countries that actually know how to run a service like this 

Japan clearly have high standards when it comes railways and I feel this is something that the UK should adopt and this starts with a public service in public hands.

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