The Anonymous Widower

It’s Not Just British Trains And Buses That Are Run By Foreign Companies

Some people, especially politicians, who’ve never run anything more difficult than an office with perhaps one employee, despair that a lot of our trains and buses are run by foreign companies. They think they should all be nationalised.

But then there’s this article from the Guardian entitled National Express To Run Nuremberg’s Overground Urban Trains.

This is the second such contract, National Express has obtained and the article talks about further contracts.

As an aside here, German trains have a lot of characteristics that we have long banished from our trains and buses, like bad customer service, as I experienced at Osnabruck.

Hopefully National Express will impose some of the excellent principles they use on c2c between London and South Essex.

February 4, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Germany, Trains