General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

British Railways are not state controlled by our Government.

They operate on a franchise system with most of the railways services owned by foreign companies.

For example, the biggest rail freight operator is DB Cargo which is actually German State Railways and many of the passenger services are owned by other foreign investment from private companies like Aviva.

All of the rolling stock is bought from foreign countries like Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain as we no longer have our own railway workshops building railway stock because like other industries, they can be produced cheaper abroad.

Only Network Rail who owed the track, stations and signalling can be said to be British and even then, there is some foreign investment.

The choice is simple, you either have a railway system with foreign investment bringing our railways into a modern railway system or you have a nationalise system losing money hand over fist and out of date railway rolling stock which was was the case in our country for many years under both Tory and Labour Governments.