I see the government are taking the National Express East Coast service back into public ownership along with possibly other National Express franchises. Apparently Boredom Groan's lot will be forming a new public company to run the railway which is not as profitable as the poor darlings would like. Given the chronic overcrowding on those trains up to Scotland and fares of over a ton I can't begin to imagine how that is so, but then I guess privatising the railways was a triumph of dogma over common sense in the first place.

Now here's an idea combine the new public owned railways with the public owned track operator that replaced Railtrack and call the new company British Rail.