If this UK government gets its way then everything that it isn't interested in will be sold off as a private enterprise and the people who use that enterprise will pay for its viability and investment. That is how capitialism works and that is why so many smaller lines subject to the conservative-backed Beeching Report simply closed down. In my view the Caithness line is teetering on closure because it is underused because of geographics. Not because the service is bad but because there isn't enough people using it.
What i am saying is that if you want the Caithness line to continue to operate or even prosper then you need a form of governance over the railways that seeks to keep the line open. I do not see that governance being connected with the UK governance that we are seeing just now. I see the Caithness line being kept open by governance that believes in nationalisation for the railways, you only get that with the SNP and the Scottish Greens. Don't chuck out the baby with the bath water is my motto.
Last edited by Rheghead; 18-Oct-16 at 00:24.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
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