Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit...
by TimK65 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:53AM
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100%. That was a whole series of articles in DN about how the Swedish railways have been run into the ground.
Separating maintenance from operations is a terrible idea and has never worked well on any railway that I'm aware of.
Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit...
by daghamm on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:28AM
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Came here to say this.
Alos, one important thing that happened in Sweden was that the part that was not privatised was also ran like a for profit company.
The railway infrastructure "CEO" basically stopped a lot of repair work and long term projects and was able to show some very good numbers to the goverment, which they very much liked. 10-15 years later things started falling apart, by which time she was long gone.
Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit...
by soco on Thursday August 08, 2024 @09:32AM
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and follows all the Wall Street bad practices... So much for obstinately calling it "not-privatized", when by all practical matters it is.
Source: I live in Sweden there was a DN article recently about it. Here it is
https://archive.is/zaGtb
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240721074607/https://www.dn.se...
(Its all too segmented, the trains, the track all different companies now nobody sees the full picture)
and https://archive.is/MztnY
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240726054426/https://www.dn.se...
(The land is not enough to fix trains and the land next to it was reserved but somehow sold to build a sports arena because the train land section became a company that had to post good numbers)
I hear UK is not too happy about their rail too. https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=yNWcAUZ69nN1B29O
Seems like it just does not work to separate rail and traffic like that.