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Why Britain Keeps Building Trains Everyone Hates

Why Britain Keeps Building Trains Everyone Hates The year was 1948, and Britain had just done something it had never done before. It had taken every railway line, every locomotive, every coal tender and signal box and country halt from the private companies that owned them, and placed them under a single national authority. British Railways was born — and with it, a belief that was almost touching in its confidence: that Britain, the country that had invented the railway, could now perfect it. The engineers who gathered in the offices of the newly formed Railway Executive were not dreamers. They were practical men with slide rules and grease under their fingernails, and they had watched the war years prove what determined engineering could accomplish. If Britain could build Spitfires and Lancaster bombers and floating harbours for the Normandy invasion, surely it could build a locomotive worth the name. The mandate felt simple. Modernise. Electrify. Compete.What followed was one of the most expensive, most ambitious, and most consistently unsuccessful engineering programmes in peacetime British history... Like and Subscribe to ‪@TrainEnthusiastYT‬