Episode 166: The Privatization of British Rail
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ah my name is guess. Um uh, yes, my gah. Uh uh my problems are he him and I have a family, but no job.

the world combination that is like job, family or good job and no family potentially pretty good defending on your feelings about IT family and no job. I said family, no job that's yes.

It's ine uh thankfully ah we have a really good safety night in the U K. I for these conditions that safety being A D H D and having six paying jobs all once in the background. So yeah, thank you for that.

And that is the patriots. People are giving me currently paying for a week's worth of rent a months. So that, thank you.

Thank you. Patron people, not the your patron people. They do not pay me anything.

And going to that put the playing up front for once, railway to go and go .

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yes. Yeah, no. I will get to that anyway, sorry, there's something on screen though, which is quite nice I see and .

handles and I am pleased to is not round the C.

I, S, the corporate identity symbol. Find a good sense.

It's the british rail. Double era is symbol. Guess what? This doesn't exist anymore.

Well, I mean, it's still at some stations, is still the same four stations.

because is still the D. F, the symbol, it's invented a new version of symbol too. That is going to be all that.

But more on that in the future as well. That literally symbol too. Yeah, they are call in is symbol too. Sibel two point zero.

Today, today we have galanthus to talk about the privatization of british rail.

This one has been a long time calling folks i'm super excited.

can be fun. One of the greatest world historical disaster beyond like the collapse of the soviet.

And yes, exactly. Actually, this is another moment when our future was for closed upon opening .

up a bunch of time captures from old british rail engineers. Greetings comrade .

descendants in darby as .

but before we talk about that, we've course have to do the god damn news.

Oh yes.

I think maybe there's some problems .

with transit policing. I was bad to say there was uh, a shooting at a sutter ave station on the l train. Uh, police shot a suspect who had gone around fair gates using the emergency exit door um and in addition to shooting the suspect, they also shot another police officer and two bystandard ds one of him was shot in the head.

They have an officer involved officer shooting yeah among other things um I believe the this of the narrative here is a the I jumped the foggy, they tried to stop him. He pulled a knife.

which they don't have. They don't have a knife, does no access .

of that because allegedly someone else stole IT oh OK yeah. Then on on seeing that knife, they then lit up an entire subway 嗯， like brain injuring a guy shooting another cup at sar.

Yes, they they fired something like nine rounds. Um I don't .

know there was a reason for this to escalate to a gun fights like the coin. The tunnels.

I think, is we've learned from this, keep the cops out of the tunnels.

I don't .

let them step .

into the steps from sit. So, no, no.

no, no stories for cops.

No, we.

no, there's not really a reason to have like 啊， like law enforcement, enforcement of fairs, right, of ticketing.

Catch me this but old. And this isn't the case for every single unit. Pity that has fair. So for example, for fair, fair, the the cost versus the enforcement isn't quite as simplest. IT isn't in new york, but i'm pressure the numbers are in new york that if they just got rid of fairs like they got out of all the fair protection stuff, particularly the cops, IT would be enormous saving they would say money.

yes and no. I mean, I suppose if you. I don't I don't know if if if I know that like they've spent lots and lots of money on police to combat fair evasion, and they haven't really done very much, certainly far more than they could ever recover in revenue from having the police there.

I don't know if you would I don't think the new york city subway could transition to lab you know a fully proof of payment system like berlin, munich or somewhere like that. I am not sure if berlin has that. I know munich does.

Um you know IT is a system that's big enough that fares are a significant part of the revenue. yes. So IT is at least covering the cost of fair enforcement. But it's not like, I mean, I guess, the big issue as we hire police officers to do that this and what do they do? They just shoot people.

We know. We know that this is what U. S. Cops do. They just shoot everyone. Like truly having them in highly, highly dense environments are you must transit system isn't a good idea as evidence from this.

They put there in the first place for, like counter terrorism is the first eno eno S I M as you they have of two speeds, right, which play Candy crush on your phone for your entire shift or shoot someone other. And yes, cases you are providing, apart from everything else, are very poor, like return on investment there, right? Like that.

One of the reasons why, uh, this is so much more expensive than IT would be in the in, like the U. K. Anywhere else, is because american cops.

like militia.

grow testy paid is what I was to say. yeah. And answer like over, like over armed and like over tactical, if that award that makes sense. And I mean also just a part of the else, the fact that has to be the M Y P and the M Y P D transit err, which this would be, is a hive of scum villainy, even by anyway pd stands as you mean caster of that eric Adams came up through the transit .

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Yeah I mean you gotta figure out a different way you know um that if someone you know doesn't pay the subway fair.

that is not .

a crime deserving of murder.

This is not a very good business decision because um I mean you're not get in the three dollars, but but also not getting any other fears on that person. Never again, IT doesn't feel like a long term revenue solution. yeah.

And I like broader basis that doesn't really drive with the idea of like this is A A public service that els kind of friendly and accessible, by the way, will kill .

people complain about .

british house customer, sometimes for good reason, sometimes for bad.

But I november with the rock.

right? I don't remember british ever just saying, like we will shoot you, you know yeah I mean.

shooting, uh, shooting, uh, four people over three dollars is an extremely trailer park thing to happen, you know, this is just, this is a bad look for everyone involved.

I, me, I don't want to be condescending about british like british policing here, given the met did literally shoot and kill an innocent man train, but they managed not to hit anyone else. So the bar, mary, like fifty metres below the floor in the sub basement level, they just kind of like gently hoping over that .

one hundred and forty stares to the surface.

Powers.

whatever the sign says, I know they use the same number at every station, even not different.

do they really yeah now just another kind of example of a tremendously like inhospitable um and like kind of environment.

Um well, folks, if you don't want to get shot, I guess you've tt a pay the fair .

no still.

but they might shot you anyway in the course of trying to shoot someone else.

Yeah, just make sure that everyone around you has like paid the fat to the M Y P, is satisfaction. I guess .

you have to wear a cavour vest and like one of those fancy kevlar helmets.

you know yeah, my call of duty riot shade. Does I get on .

the exact right?

It's .

interesting to that this came in the context of like your favorite fair among is like the new york post being like subway crime has and you look at like homicides on the subway and the homicide right went from five to eight last year and like eight total. The situations .

where they say IT doubled is like yet doubled from basically zero to continuing to be basically zero given how many people use the system. I mean, come on, yes.

I have. I love a web ising statistical noise.

Yeah just going to make up your self as it's .

good point, good point and .

criminal logically and so was difficult as statistics because, uh, criminology is one of the fields that most like affected by sometimes people just doing shit, sometimes people be doing, often in tremendously unpredictable on statistically like serious way. See you know .

people do be doing things. That's my that's .

my kind of like a reasoned judgment on IT as a social science is yeah the social park can really fuck .

with the science park speaking .

of people doing things.

Got real voted every pager .

in lebanon on this is .

just a fucker war crime dude.

yeah yeah. I mean, they followed this up the next day by blowing up a bunch of, uh, like handout yeah so so this is a almost certainly in breach of the convention convention on certain uh conventional weapons of whatever is cold um and it's like, you know a number of people have been killed, including children who are like coaster al damage. Obviously the israeli don't give a shit.

The most more alarm in the world strikes again .

yeah yeah what I mean I said this on twitter, not to just recapitulate stuff i've been saying on twitter, right. But like um I think a lot of people have been talking about particularly like west impressive about how technically impressive this was as like an active which is true right like at the same time like a IT doesn't that doesn't detract from the humAnitary arians are like crime of that all the kind of political stupidity y frightening .

for me is the cat out of the bag and of this like you not put this back in the box now israel and you know any state, but particular israel, and will realize this. Oh, we can do this and get away with this too. Like what they are just gonna start acting.

They're to is everything like it's fair game, everything is fair game is really frightening. Like we all Carry an explosive device around. I have IT next.

I tweet so much. I spend so much time with that thing near my dick balls. I having getting .

free gender surgery from massad. I like tweet on my phone. Uh, if you consider this to be like military impressive, you have to say the october seventh was typically to putting my phone in my balls and waiting so so as I understand IT right um what has happened here is that this has been a supply chain attack where I who I am so old that I remember when has blows a byword for competence right which is getting to this point.

It's embarrassing um hesba has gone OK well we need to secure our communication so we will order in from some combination of fronts and cast out like say, five thousand pages and two thousand walking talk is right just off the shelf. And master has like found out they're doing this. And at some point in either the manufacturer or the shipping of those things, they have like placed explosives in all of those devices and then activated them. And I think but they make sure .

they make sure to turn on the beeper first. So people take IT out of the pocket, explodes in their eyeballs.

yeah. I mean, is the same thinking as a land mine. And a lot of way IT is also terrorism. But like to be clear.

like table day is we .

have that is it's intended to disable, right? It's intended to main um and now the benefit of that besides the drain on the lebanese health care system, the kind of like psychological terror that you inspire is that you kind of hope to disable a large number of as well Operators before you then start the invasion, which IT turns out they've had to do this thing early before they started the invention.

And so I I guess they also got like a bunch of health care workers using the same pages.

I believe to be honest, I think when you're talking about he's la um you're talking about like A A sort of like a movement that is deeply and mashed in life in sociality for good reasons, right? And it's like not at all. I think I think part of the point of doing this right is that you blow up a bunch of people who are deniability affiliated with hesba h and then go or how did you get that page right? I don't think this is a case. I don't think we're going going to see that this is something where that it's like affecting unrelated pages or unrelated radio. I think it's gona be people who are like engaged in some capacity of hezbollah who have now been like a blown up in a sort of like war crime about IT a like a vagary targeted way not to say that that hasn't been clash oral damage, but I I think a lot of people, I kind of gonna hay of the, you know this sof like this doctor was blown up by his pager and like, yeah, but he was blown up probably by his hezbollah pager because he was in hesba right we don't have to be have to sort of flight um sure you know cover for that. I I think the other implication of this um is that uh this means that a whole bunch of communications infrastructures are now going to become like much more secure nomics like this has to be made in country um I think the sum of this already is for exactly this a reason um and .

I think it's like a couple open and make sure there's .

nothing suspicious what you physical control the factory and whole right um which is something that like a lot of places already have, has blood by virtue of its position, is being like prescribed, like internally designated terrorist organization, doesn't have until has to allow these like more vulnerable commercial supply chains.

But still it's like really like striking on a couple of levels, one that they are able to like develop this like communications network um and to that that was so vulnerable and they didn't notice. Um and it's it's just like I don't I I think you underestimate as well of your perl always right. I think that like especially given that this seems to have been something that israel forced to like detonate early, that's it's going to affect the serve like situation. If this will do invade even on less than that otherwise would have ve done, but still IT, it's like an embarrassment. H yeah.

And I mean, who's to say they won't blow something else up tomorrow?

What absolutely I mean this is the things that you just kind of keep trying to do this kind of like rolling area increased paranoid and has below you like ripping open every piece of like elector infrastructure have which the idea um but yeah no it's it's it's I have the same feeling I said this on twitter tools as with the the script poisonings where russia used a nove gas against some guy, they were mad. Unlike you've really reached quite deeply insisted of panda ora, a box of tricks here for yeah not a very good reason necessarily and do not .

put the lid back on IT no I mean I I .

think this is hard to replicate against the state um but yeah I think there are lots of other kind of like non state actors groups, you know like at a lower level than has the lower. This is gonna. I provide some opportunities to fuck with them. And my individuals in places.

individuals and countries across the world to, you know even, you know, does does IT come to the U. S. And how know U. S. Politicians who are particularly or or activists who are particularly successful in in, in, in point out that some of the awful things is religion and they're going to start. So where does IT it's well.

that sort of backwards that because this is something that like on a more targeted basis as well as been doing for decades. They killed the the like head of hamas's so like technical wing a with a explosives in his and his mobile phone. I don't remember which year this was. We're going to start .

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yeah. no. I I just I I think this is unprecedented in of the the targeting in the scale and um yet it's just it's remarkable really is is my main kind of take away from this time. I'm still stunned I I think in terms of like being able to target members of hezuo a who like to have enmeshed within lebanese vertical like civil society um obviously primarily and obviously at the cost of this like clatter al damage is like I don't know that I was been able to do something like this before a grim .

time for eleven and right now, given that just the option of like. Their economic massive economic boom and actual boos that they've been dealing with over the last success .

ccea of years. Yes, I mean thing that really structure I saw um twister account from lebanese r doctor who was had been tracing this kind of flat wave of and literally thousands of injuries like people walking in with like serious like facial and eye injuries or like like missing fingers, missing hands um and you go back in her like tweet and like a couple of days early she's proposed about like game of thrones or like totally Normal and you're just like the kind of yes, see seeing the contrast with all of this stuff like with any of these like human rites buses anywhere you're like um these are like is like the kind of share strangest and brutality that you're imposing on to like ordinary people's lives.

This is why the terrorist terrorist is absolutely the the right word for IT because is yes that that cascine through the through right through society just a lot of people who have now had their lives sort of completely impacted and and and you know there the horn thing they are going to experience of dealing with this yet it's grim um. Yeah yeah I mean.

you know that feels like there's always sort of a tedco in the mainstream media to sort of really you a place like the roots, say, which you is live yeah no, this is just a weird middle eastern terrorist compound is supposed to yeah you know this .

this is a Normal city doing or even hesba itself right?

I think this is the other thing is hesba a is like it's a prescribe organization, is a terrorist organization that comes by those levels pretty honestly. But IT is also like it's a political party. It's like this organization of like charisse movements that do social services, obviously with the aim of like consolidating its own like a sort like movement. It's a bunch of different things that like very, very deeply in meshed a with like all aspects of of civil society in certain areas. That's like like I say, it's really kind of um a remarkable you know to blank even have this ability to can talk way and obviously the results horrify.

yep.

and.

news.

Now, IT is the funny news. Ah, yeah, every go this guy fired .

for truth.

Oh god, yeah, yeah. So in what was probably the most like soft interview i've done in a long while, like i've said, much punches your stuff. I pointed out that that their chAllenges, historic chAllenges, used in station, because government has cancelled cross rel too, and then is cancelled, they just two and so on. All the stuff that you guys know, everyone, high hawks, high, high old patient for hi, everyone listening.

You all know this stuff is pretty subtle and an extremely pissed off uh one lord Peter gerard handy of richmond, ash ibo in the wilder of the brackets I him and yes, and he didn't like this so he very personally got me sacked in the sense that but my job that was mine isn't any more yeah he he he went straight to um went straight to my employer, threatened to the C E. O with not getting any more contracts. Thread him again is saying you've got pasta shareholders and the and and not the head office whatever or that meant and and then my my first layer .

sister promptly sacked me thank you and did all of this instance. This guy, the chairman of network rail, which if you ve listened this before, you know like like arms link to like governmental body that turns the tracks and like infrastructure for rail um just like emAiling your boss or your your CEO like like a kind like stereotypical mobster being like you know nice you go in that work。 Rail would be a shame if anything would have happen to them .

kind of saying and it's what's subsequently happened. So so then i've then bounced around through oral disciplinary process for several months, been spared the end of IT without a job. And so then you, I kind of said, in the eleven hour and high ccl flux, do you have any idea how much of a ship storm i'm about to create here if you do this? And they did not.

So I create the shit storm. And you know someone who has quite extensive media contacts and a large social media following proceeded to tell everyone what happened with all the receipts. And that's not gone hugely well for the handy, who's not made any public appearances since since this went public. It's not gone well for at work rail who have been um somewhat hounded by an enormous number three move main at requests from journalists and the rail at the disco server.

Uh all man the author ATM is great and yeah so so neural put out a statement that could not have been written more to look like this a cover up at using even if there isn't a cover up at muston, the statements that have been written about used station buying a rogue make IT look like there's an enormous cover up everyone's dig around in handy's kind of private and profession life. A lot of the supply and and really pissed off and getting very angry about IT. And there's some more fun used to come out in the next.

It's it's annoying. We take I always forget that I can go a quicker than lots of big companies and indeed and long form journalism moves of its slower but there there is more to come. The story is not done yet even if IT is very boring and annoying.

But IT doesn't mean that i'm not A A the professional track for um in the U K. For six anymore. But I will see what i'm text. I will still be and continue to do engineering and that's not going to change uh but yeah the chance for me to think what else can I get up to?

So yes, it's just it's so striking that what you actually said was so not just mild and not just like something that was like you known to known to like your employers is like a part of the kind of commentary you are doing and they are happy that you are doing but like so blindingly fucking obvious. You say, like, hey, when IT gets really crowded, when like one train is delayed and like another one arrives, the dumping passengers onto the same platform of people sprinting through IT, that's dangerous. Anyone who's been to eston and like the past, I I venture to say decade IT has personal experience because like someone else, a suitcase is taken out a chunk of the back of the ankle.

So let me get this straight. Like the boarding procedure used in is like, like pen station worse.

So let me, let me explain, let me explain. You sing station to you right there is so there's like a boxy, like station home, right, which is very ugly. It's got like one L D wall, which you could use for announcing stuff.

They don't if that they use IT for advertisements. And then you have a couple of like displays oriented ninety degrees away from that, showing you where people are going. You have a little like fucking like um leon, like shay fast food restaurant and hold deck with the pub above IT and all the season cramming into the back.

And then if a very narrow corridor um um so transversely with the platforms extending out from and what they do is if you're getting a train from muston is IT will like be announced on all of the a the display is is are over the the public address system about twenty five seconds before that trains doors close and IT leaves. And also I have to mention every train off racing company is cancelled in every like third forth train, no notice. So you get a bunch of trains which are over subscribe too small on a bunch of platforms connected by very narrow corridors and ramps. And please don't run here, signs nothing to stop you running no barriers. And so you have to get like a little text on your phone or the the tunnel IT goes off, or ever saying you go to platform six, the entire contents of not just that train but the train before that's been cancelled and maybe the train before that are now in a dead sprint across across a narrow corridor, down onto a platform um through the next station home IT is an absolute fucking disaster waiting to happen.

Yeah but. Yeah, imagine if, firstly, imagine if you're doing that blinder or in a wheelchair. And yeah, no. Imagine if that had been mentioned by someone in in in an engineering disaster theme forecast. Merely the purely coincidentally, the episode before I ended up going public with all this IT was very good time in nova for you to talk about to briefly elude to station in the the sort about crushes on london transfer IT seems .

like I was coordinated, but honestly, I was. I combat onest ly through the form of having just been in un. And thinking to myself unprompted. Fucking hell, that was dangerous.

sucks. Yeah.

I ve just had to like, take my like rolling suitcase and and do like a sort of hundred meter sprint with that down an engine.

This is, this is why every time I ve been in the U. K, I take the east coast mainline.

absolutely more civilized way. I get up and down the country. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, no, that lot.

Yeah, that's where to be. The in the news. But yeah, what funny is that? The P. M. Getting asked about IT.

Yeah, IT really went up to the top left and it's it's fun to annoy q stoma. The fact that i've personally annoyed cheer stoma brings me great joy. It's all we can hope for.

Know the emperor knows your .

name for Better, worse. But yeah, so the good thing about me going really public with IT as if I get assassinate, you all know at first they won't be am .

low and was my sad.

Three states all gunning for you at the same time.

like a cold world thills.

I love first british mexican israeli joint covers Operation. And let me tell you two legs of that. Still, the food is fucking terrible in mexico .

is Carrying the quiz time bump into each other, like three outfielders going for the same fly ball.

Oh, boy and so that guy doesn't a job anymore, the guy on the television .

screens right now, it's a great shame and you know um we hope that you get a Better office.

Yeah yeah let's see what happened. But that so if you are the engine console is, uh.

hi do do you want some who like able and talented and takes the safety responsibility ties as an engineer and that kind of professional ethics very seriously .

because you should just fire because to .

get you poor history, you do you have to briefly, I mean, only very briefly, feel for them, because they just don't have a clue of what sisters they were gonna ate clearly. And a boy, what a systm m. y've. Had to deal with. So what a shame.

Yeah, I mean getting getting bully by someone who could, like, incredibly, threaten .

them. Candy. Yeah, lucky you guys. But okay, it's not. As I had a great team and I I missed my team that I was working with, IT was gone to do fun stuff anyway to talk about something .

that isn't a miserable disaster.

Oh, the.

Average, average west coast .

mainline.

This is, oh, boy. So ross, foolishly, that let me drive a little bit this one. And so this is W, T, Y, P. And therefore we have to start the beating, which is what is railway and comes from the roman funds.

Well, actually, i've gone early in that because to my mind, the first railway, so that's a thing that is A A guidance system that guides the wheel of a kind of wheel vehicle. And it's not the vehicle doesn't steer itself, is deal cost in ancient greeks. So, and yes, this thing, a southern central greece, IT connected the irony on an agent and seas and the gage.

Interesting enough between these two ruts, because we can call this a rutz, which kind of interrup doesn't? The gate here is sixty hundred millimeters, which is not far off, you know, its irish gage. So yeah, that this thing moved. The ship basically would go to the wheel and would get can hole between two seas canalis bit later.

But this thing was actually be developed A A bit of a reputation of being a pretty fast way of moving things around which which kind so this is IT was also open for fee paying customers, which kind of makes the first public railway as well. But I admit maybe calling IT a railways a bit of stretch, but IT is the first sort of permanent way, if you like. And but if we jumps an exclude, I semble be going to hammer through these fast class increase that was seven under bc.

Let's jump to fifteen, fifteen. And the first kind of permanent way that we would maybe recognizes being kind of a railway. And that is the whole insults book for us.

Uh, funicular IT was a fni. Ua IT was the first kind of prime way. And I kind of went, you kind, you kind of see where I went. In this picture, I think.

is to the left on side. If you're in the sixth century, do what know the plus of pentium is happening in the background. You I don't give a shit about any this collection phy version and what I is i'm making my special interest inventing trains exactly.

And so to the austrians, got got their first with kind of what we'd recognize as as the shape of of of today's railway. Really IT wasn't in the british style of adenoid al boomer widows who shot me every time. I'd just their hts.

But no, it's no british. It's kind of the railway as we recognize rian and IT went up a hill into a connect call castle. But we do have to talk about britain unfortunately, this, if no, no, i'm so sorry.

So this time force again, uh, to not that much later, but to fifty ninety four and the first underground railway in britain. So so which even is as old as the eighteen that sorry, fifteen sixties we d started at having novas. Exactly, he said we start having these kind of mine tracks being built.

Actually the first ones kind, we're popping up in cambaranian. But the first kind of outdoors was the press got wind away in nineteen ninety four. And here is not a picture of IT. But I kind of the vacation gives .

an idea what that looks like, like man's quest to not have to pull or push heavy shit exactly at a certain point. IT gets to beyond even a horse. Ri, and you're just like.

that's gotta an easier. I die.

Yeah, I am dying. My horse is dying.

The child that I got to push, the thing is, this is definitely dead. But like, you know, yeah. So if you the fun enough, the logic of all this is to move a load.

And if you reduce the friction between the load and the ground you can move. You require less efforts to move IT. That's kind logic, all this stuff.

So you know, deal costs used very nice, sort of hard of limestone, which really nicely create these ruts, and ended up being really smooth and really nice, low friction. We ended up using split timbers on the for her insides burg, and for all the kind of come reminds this thing similar. But if we jum forward again, you have this a glorious scene here of wakefield.

This is this. This is glorious wakefield. Look at this suburban shit tle. That is how to way feel sorry, everyone is instantly actually was not so bad.

And ninety percent of britain looks like this. And I feel like kind of swell of pid racism. And right.

looking at clear and here on this right away.

So unfortunately, the wakefield council has weight field city council has target over the thing that i've took this street view screen shop and because the thing that the screen shop is of the m is of the lake lock railroad. And and yes, that's right. That is a railroad, nor a railway, the lake lock railroad, which is the first public railway that used iron edge rails.

Wow, what is an an edge rail? So we'd had all these wagon ways going over the place. And then some bright Spark in culbert deal decided that they could create iron of to pretty the quality because they're coking coal they had access to.

And so all some another Price bar. I don't know what we can do with this isreal. It's kind of rule out nozing thin and stick on these wooden rails that we've got on all these wind ways.

And this start happening kind of in the middle seventeen hundreds to the point where by the, by kind of the seven hundred and eighty seventy nineties, we would actually developed a rail, as you or I would recognize IT, what we called m edge rails that were kind of a rail that you see now. And this, the late last railroad, was the the first public rail are using them in, in, in the world, in fact. And at this point, we did start britain camp, start saying that we started accelerating beyond everyone else.

And that was because of really because of our ability to kind of create cheap, reasonably consistent quality iron that we would then either put on top of the wooden light ways or we kind of start rolling these edge rails and other railways of around the rest of world places like russia, for example, with some of these early examples of, like we start finding the way elsewhere started rails, but they were british rails. There were rails that were manufactured in britain because no one else could quite get the quality. So schedule, anyway, wake field, city council, go back, take the tarmac off this bloody, important piece of of history.

You oix just because people who are getting upset, because they are paul les, like, screw those guys, they probably will drive A U. V. S. anyway. But also, everyone can go to start.

go to, go to. And IT is an honor for the suspension of your rental .

to it's exactly.

Are these edge rails the kind that have the flying on the rail?

No, so they are. So there were two types of, there were plated ways that basically relied on, yes, having a of an l shaped rail and the wheel sort of setting that. And then edge rails are relied on the onic wheel, which is very much the kind of what ended up being the technology of we used still to the state.

So yeah, you got the two, you you got the l shape rails and the edge rails and these kind of even when this rail railroads was built, they were very much competing with each other that no one had quite decided on which to use. So if we jump forwards once more, we're not looking at track anymore. You be able to see we're looking at this.

look at this .

nonsense last years. I mean.

this is such a waste. Those gears could have been put to so much. Better use decorating a top hat.

This is, this is traffic ics, one of travel ics. Well, basically just put a giant keel and attached IT with a bunch piers to some and cox to some wheels and went and said, go. And the difference to in this in some of the other team engages at the time. Well, firstly, this one moved, but but second, they used high precious steem rather than low precious day, which is quite revolution. So what, James, what kind of famous steam engine guy, he was a low pressure corner today, was using low pressure to this, excites high pressure, and also wheels, and and in eighty four, uh, he made this thing, hold a train. For the first time ever, there was a locomotive, whole train on the panda don, uh, tramway, kind of written in what is today, mercury villa in the wealth rallies, the cardiff and slight eighty eight four kind of a pretty epic moment a shout out a trophic who um as with many engineers, he ended up ruling himself financially multiple times over kind of bummed ed into George Stephen and in south amErica as you do and then continues to kind of live pending.

This dress is life doing like like a former version of butchers and dance.

exactly. So I took until support this point. We're still having a battle about what real I should look like but jump forced eighteen, thirty and the next lide.

And here's chat moss with the the first modern railway as we know it's so all the previous five ways and railways and SHE, including the stock and tAllent. And we're all kind and kind of premodern railways, early railways or premodern railways. This is the first modern railway limbo of manchester railway, the first into city really as well.

And why do I call the fresh modern railway? Because IT took a lot of kind of stuff that we've decided on like, oh, time maybe a good idea, but we're not going to use that with everything else. Is having the signals is a good old double tracks.

Oh, look at, this is the first railway that pulled all hit together and actually went, oh, this is a system. And all the stuff together ends up being quite good. And IT was from eighteen thirty emds, partly as a result of an enormous IT, basically the demise of the slave industry in the UK. Kind of timed rather well, with a bunch of people no longer having A A frontier of capitalism.

They could kind of this thing, you know, that me about, like america's deficient in a key resort. Random farmer in nebraska finds the worlds larger deposit of IT, the kind of like there's a special providence that protects like fools, drunks, children in the u and the united states of amErica that used to be true of britain, which means that that man days of heaven is transferable, that the U. S.

Will one day lose IT. And there will be a situation where, like whatever the resource of the future is, some random farmer in china is gonna dig up the worlds largest like deposit of IT instead of the U. S. Yeah, yeah.

For sure. So there's at the point of above that happened cut the decades before, but actually was only kind of eighteen theory in this point where firstly, and not the orty funding of the rail is, but a large ge amount of capital start getting freed up because the british government compensated the slave owners, not the slaves, the slave owners, for all the slaves that they'd had to free. We delivery .

kenyan ism by accident.

genuinely .

giving, like the worst criminal in the fucking world, like millions of pounds, millions of eighteen, seven pounds.

which exactly million? Seven pounds.

which, hey you you're like, you know plantation career is over. There is like no reason for you to stay in jamaica, whatever. Why don't you instead take these trillions of pounds and like after by in yourself everything you could possibly want, why not splash that around on to more investments?

You know exactly. Know this way. I was built very much to IT, among other things, but to move slave one corn from the U.

S. Into mills in the interview of north n england. And at this old whole time you have this explosion. Is that then happened.

And IT was no coiner that IT was at the time of the slave industry was very much that he was an industry. You has huge numbers of managers, Clarks merchants, this huge network of people. The other son didn't have much to do.

And so they were basically divert. You have see a transfer wholesale of this, this industrial might, evil industrial might, into railway is so people are afraid of, often thought of railways as being this benign, peaceful, technological wonder that just appeared rono. So yes, it's transport political.

I stand. Yes, quite .

enormous explosion. Railways and and IT was hopelessly disorganized, chaotic and and and great because the british rail network um from this point onward and we went into the stupid zone and then we have never left right yes and I really like to the stupid zone.

Welcome to the student zone with the time.

So the problem in britain was that we had like a hundred companies, all competing and building railways with each other. Some of them, lots of the railways were like happy or they were, but they were like proposed prospectively. There was zero strategic oversight. And so you just have a lots of a very wiv, very useless railways.

all sort of none of them making any real sense through the towers apartment like imaginable at the mp world.

fund world, like directors on the boards of these railway companies. So like they just like pick their pet railway project they were going to from to parliament that day.

And like people, there's a reason while the drawing offices for railways, we're like next to parliament, there's a reason the institution cy ive engineers, their fancy officers on great George ry aren't next to problem so they can they don't have to jog very far with all their plans to lay out on the table, has the commons to accept, and then everyone get their slush fun money yeah, not just just not a great way to build a rail in america. And no one else got a particularly right in the rest world leader. But there was much more strategies. Mainland europe, about the rail network. Russia.

S, I know quite a little bit more, a bit .

less, less. Feel a little sixteen century .

podcast of being like railways in a polian you, the inner .

urban that were being .

built in like the nineteen nineties and early nineteen hundred. Ds, in the united states, we're here to build the nowhere .

in a storm pitt railroad.

I guess here I would be the the, the, the nowhere sure. And armed pit upon drainage ditch .

railway. Oh, you mean that south of little lump?

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ah and it's it's too click so it's it's east of like, great, great armpit. So let's jump forwards.

Almost the century from this points we have a huge explosion. Real is hugely wasteful. Let's jump for one one thousand hundred and twenty three, and the rail is, act rationally. Let's jum force in twenty twenty one.

And then what happened to ninety twenty three, which was the rail is at twenty twenty one, which gave us what's called grouping, where all of these railways, let's go next, lide. All these railways were smoothed into four large railways of the L M. And the G W.

R. On the southern. And these are the four, what the called the big for.

These are the big four, uh, ri companies. And this actually wasn't a great idea. This was not a bad idea.

But I also done that .

well.

What White was so then used to kind of like old west funt.

Yeah, I know, I know, I know. right.

I guess like it's a good thing that none of these were like revival as kind of zombie brands to put like also like Peter has an old time feeling on like some quite shit trains yeah .

southern literally reused this logo. So the current southern railways, which has absolutely no connection to original use this logo elina is back obviously. Uh, G T V R is also back. No one's bothered recreating the email. So which is the west as mainline one, so know sometimes yeah, the big four created.

And the the thing about just doing a big thing like this, and I would say this was a bit of a half ring of IT in in that this didn't solve the logical. This was to remove a lot of clerical duplication, if nothing else, to try. In the middle between the two, the two wars, the railways were starting to lose money in a big way.

They were struggling. They were competing with road logistics more and more. They also just huge, complicated companies that that no one really had a handle.

And so h so the good idea was to merger and uh, in an attempt to make some of that go away, which maybe I didn't, but we never know. Because in the second war, warham, and then immediately after the second world war happened, this renovate to line up the the U. S. S.

R. I elected, sorry.

So yeah, we we have at, we have a source government, and they nationalize the realist. So we have the transport at and nineteen forty seven which creates this little guy the old anemic line that says the next lide baLance cle there there is british railways and you know what okay so the lion looks like britain did at the time um but I like the time soviet .

neston block a railway logo which is a winged onic wheel which looks right not doesn't bit doesn't bit was like no ings .

involved it's on the .

ground why the wings exactly wins and not necessary and .

with the chronic .

wasting disease you have to shoot .

this line, but not eat IT.

What's funny is that one of the later logos did include a IT was a more of a lead. But I did include a dick outline for the, for the line. So interesting. So where is this one is? Is there is a bit of a .

funny outline, but I an exactly yeah .

so british. So and so B R, it's a funny one. So B R was an absolutely necessary move because the rail is to just been absolutely hammer.

By the second world war, they had had been hammered by both world wars, and they had never really caught in into war years. And so I really always were kind of just a bit of a shambles. You know, much as the U. S.

Is successful done in the first world war, kind of that made sense to run them under one unified organza, which had been a bit of A A board of combining kind of four grouping companies, but they kind of new, right? Okay, this we're going to be nationalist, annoying. Ly, as often happened with the big change that this this did cut, they did to stop a lot of modern ization efforts in their tracks. For example, quite love education projects were going on, the the nationalization, you know, all the stuff to do, the nationalization kind of stopped in its tracks.

But I mean, to clean, actually, in many ways, like some of, like climate styling in the best way, in the sense that like if you're nationalizing stuff, like the national school board, for instance, then you like we ve got to do something, all this coal, make sure that everybody has good jobs.

And this is a great exactly, genuinely, after keeping hold of steam for at IT because we had a lot of good coal and only good to call jobs. And why would you not run the railway with steam locomotives? But so there was still a realization that you're fairly quickly.

There was a realization that I know everything still fucked and we're going to really need to look into the future. And so if we jump force the next lid, we have an off machined bit of documentation, which is the the modernization plan, one thousand and fifty five modernization railways. And this context is all important, by the way, for where we get to in the future.

This is all very important stuff. So moderization can often stay IT as a failure by kind of rail nerds who have bought the treasury sort of line on this. Treasury are a long time enemy in the story.

I am afraid so, so often say it's a Philip is because I find IT difficile to agree with that more because IT really moved B R. Forward in a pretty dramatic way. If you got the next slide, i'll show you one example of this, which is like fancy Nancy signs like this, fancy stuff this. And look, this persons .

steam s well.

yes, yeah. Actually weirdly, I mean, increasing number of disease, but have plenty of things still .

looking at this point. I got to bio these these solo models really quick, so you couldn't have any standardized designs because you .

ve got to buy him for fifty manufacture warship class stuff.

doing something wrong that was wasteful, but actually kind of ended what kind of worked down in the end. And actually, IT was a bit a move past and break for in situation. Yes, IT would have been Better to standardize, go for A A kind of a standard.

Look up when we can learn that the hard way. And there there are various reasons for this. But but I would say that the massive of the the locomotives are partly because his railway history is often written by the train nurse, right? So they're like, well, the diesels were a mess of modernization was a failure.

But actually, if you look at the infrastructure, modernization represented huge. One of trannel al massive resignation projects. We saw the beginning of what what kind of was a bit of a ruling program, elect fiction right way through to kind of the east of mainland get alleged .

fied in the eighties, actually, was initially about nineteen and a third of nal children waving a red jump. Er.

you know, exactly the final petty codes and such so so like this this kind of britain, once again, a rail network or started catch up in terms of its signals, and we started at having signal systems that were world leading again. Whether we kind of happened for a long.

imagine britain being a world leading in anything.

not not a thing we can do. The chAllenge that the trouble of the rail is had, though this is all happening the same time as as we started seeing the emergence of the motorway construction sort of boom in the U. K. Unlike the, unlike the the railway, which was very much centralized, and therefore treasury could just get grubby hands all over. And the those way construction was pretty decentralized, kind of reasoning LED.

And so treasury didn't really have much involvement. So glass city council decided to.

through a big portion, dear. So so the treasury, like B R A bridge rail, is had to to directly please treasury who are a bunch of short memory psychopath. So that was like that was a problem. So animation .

treasurer as well. Like it's just the day that you can't get people out of these modes of thinking.

At least failure was that he didn't run them all up and drive them off. The end of brighten er was. Fuckers, anyway. So treasury continues to play.

I can't stop staring at this guy here. I can think is I am the key master you would.

Game keeper, yes, here's very nice. I mean, you got a lovely county. There is very, very nice. Netware, yeah, it's good. I just last just so 因为我 like us， like my guy is serving, got on to bring back .

one thousand and fifteen .

engineer solute beautiful, enjoying the treasurer, the end of brand peer. So that's so let's just have a look at some number, shall we let's jump to the next lide because I want to look at some numbers. So okay, with the treasury failure, yes, do IT numbers are important.

We just have to look all these numbers, the important number here, this basic income and expenses of the rail in one thousand nine hundred and sixty one versus twenty twenty one. And i've Normalized into into press trust pounds for everyone's convenience. So the number, the important number here is the bottle on.

So if you've got the top, you've got all the income. The bowel ve got all the expenses. So treasure was very angry that in one thousand nine hundred and sixty one the government, the deficit of the railways was one point nine billion pounds in in press funny money and when I in twenty twenty one the deficit was eighteen billion pants.

So that are those are not because of inflated. Those are the same equivalent numbers in twenty, twenty two Prices. So when people I get angry at the railway going, oh yeah, no, we'll do more efficiencies like I know treasury of always just wanted more and more. So we are much more efficient, really running without much of that being cut back in one thousand nine hundred sixty one first, twenty twenty one. So yeah, I just thought throw that out there for people who for the real number, crunch cious to get to get to to get angry.

So big drop and free traffic.

my god. Yes, IT isn't IT because we get we got rid of all into the roads because that felt .

like a good idea where you at x ization and will talk about sexualization. yes. Uh, like one big sector that was, for instance, coal don't do that anymore. Still trains 报警 胶囊 still .

was .

less。 Coal train ran a couple weeks ago, right? Yeah.

we don't we don't need coin this country more, you know. And likewise like steel traffic, similarly later on, steel traffic massively, massively. We did a lot of still in this country.

We don't anymore. And yeah, what interesting is how similar the traffic receipts, the passengers traffic receipt baily, a lot, a lot billion in IT, which is actually quite close. Okay, fewer people traveling for sure. But that's kind of interesting how close those are, as you say, versus freak, which has been a bitter ate kind of interest. And we you we're earning point three billion more from retail apparently yer .

some other ship right like nh .

pi company is saying .

something .

like leon that is approximately food we'll get .

to sandwiches. I am looking forward to talking about sandwiches.

So something something I have my expertise on. Ah yes.

so let's let's go an x lide and prepare the booze. doctor. Beaching is indeed here.

He looks so nice and friendly, how could anyone find him offensive?

He does look like a smart count isn't but probably not bad suit. But I like there's like typical like extra worker guy who done helps like .

this anymore and that do on the .

length x like fucking .

use of garbles he really does like you've got .

west street half rather on the on the right inside but the gun the left is absolutely straight from the bunker.

really like like a broad cop anymore either .

like .

in .

gob stop a recipe.

I genuinely have a theory that like stuff, like steroid and even just like more gym c accessibility has taken away one of the great british like tensions of public life, which was the lad? Yes, because like, if you were gna look like this, if you had this like, I don't know, was that fucking finot pe, whatever. Now you're in the gym all the time, you don't look like this.

I just can't take him seriously. And in a large lad to be saying.

what's all I don't have the combination of like the genes that code for this build and also a diet of mostly meat pies and anymore .

exactly I I don't respect that if it's coming from a guy looks like androtten or something .

yeah this guy, this guy is on the protein, you know, he's drinking fucking one broth and IT shouldn't be like that. He be should be like a drinking stout and eating meat pie.

Exactly thirty .

five of like a corner.

Uh, so we had this guy, doctor beach, and a beaching much melon was brought in as the chair of the, as the last chair the british transport commission in the first chair of the british .

rail is bored. Just sorry to this picture, this tensions, they're protesting him. But what they are doing is the acting is his hype. Man.

we need to see flavor fay back .

here somewhere. Yes, they've got .

this really .

nice like kind of painted on the mating is check this guy out. He's got like a police at school and everything .

doctor beaching and his medicine band.

Yeah, they just hy hyping up. Well, fun enough at beaching much, we will get some. In fact, next life will get some.

What is a beachy rived? And was told by, basically said about his role, was to attempt to make the role revenue neutral, just as the modernization had plan had done and kind of failed to do. That was what he was supposed so we go to next live, please. We get to the things .

the kind of age of innocence of like you know a village Green cricket you know like would made sighting to church um and all and you're like local branch line had three passengers .

a decade yeah and so this is exactly that know and it's as much of the fact that he accelerated, he said, get steem the fuck off my railway and he did indeed get rid of a lot of fringe branch lines and and that's the thing that everyone remembers the right is the fact we close the bunch of a railway lines and know in some cases that might have been a bad.

And whatever these are, the the reshaping british show is, by the way, the beaching report as is off to call me, we're going to call the aching x exists. Then referred to came in two problems. I have them behind me, my literal, original copies behind me of my shoulder.

Because it's an interesting thing to have A A hold of, very interesting thing to read through. Actually, I did a rail now on IT and a writing stuff on this, if you want to, detailed deep into this, this is the, if so, you find elsewhere. But one of you think so as much of my lids, in a way, was just a rebranding of the kind of the ongoing modernization efforts. Yes, IT shot a lot of of lines, but actually shot appointments .

rubbed to be onest crying into my like really that the kind of like upping to upon blossom like a like model railway branch joint line. Yes, yeah. I like a beautiful points, like because don't.

And engine with the happy face.

Yeah, yeah this guy put, like, had all of the cost of Thomas, the time engine apart with I.

yes, I have got that picture, that high red can of the orderly picture where they've got they like they've got a guy with a cutting torch taking the faces of the my first time can cause I love that it's so good I did so good lucky so actually as we had laugh yeah okay, I like my chia just with that one stress of last few months anyway, right?

So let's join the next picture and i'm going to talk about what reshaping actually represented, which was A A really acceleration and very important and successful things. One of those being the kind of the first successful deployment of into model rail um using these container shipping know shipping containers as a system so that these are existed all over the place up this point. But the first proper deployment of them was in the U.

K. And thanks very much. Thanks to beaching himself.

So this was how is successful and you we still have a really company called free light can could sustain support. So very, very successful. But also into city international, down sit, I .

have personally.

yes, and IT got down IT works. And good grief, we will. I mean, india going to .

get there. So the polian he was.

he didn't saw, you know what? The beaching people say you okay, he might well have been A A bit of a, but actually I think he is annoying, little melted much as he was a is a tory and blow a whatever. But like actually he did some very large, very positive things for our railways.

And I think it's I think there a lot of beer types you'd like to because he got rid of steam and got rid of there is exactly you say over that innocence. You can IT was around a moment with that innocence was lost and everyone's hung IT around his neck. But actually a lot of what he did was really good, but IT was not all good.

And the biggest mistake he made was not closing a bunch of lies. But there is the removal of net k implication in the cities in the U. K.

This is going to come. And holders momentarily the removal of like the network plica in the city. So getting rid of like having a having lip opportunity to have one station that was the suburban station in one station that was in city station.

No, IT was no. Have just wherever you can just have one station and get rid of all the duplicate lines. That was a really big error.

So basically saying I did generally just deprived tizer suburban rail in the U. K. Was one of the things of each and reported. And IT was reshaping 的 大， biggest failure by a long way situation. Well, like this.

like you'll be in a british city that has one train station and that train station still has a name that implies the existence of others in that city like, uh, i'm pulling examples at my else here.

A bunch of these half other stations sound like briol temple needs right? Or like liverpool line street, or like glass of queen street, right? Or it's like this implies that there are others and often they are not because they yesterday and they aren't.

Yeah exactly. Also the only reason we're able to have a north a sore or in the united states because several parallel lines were combined into a separate line for freight that was only able we done strategically because we had conrail at the time.

You want you want some redundancy.

yes. And this is the talents, exactly. And so what actually the rail network had you not as much redundancies we might like today, but actually had some redundancy into a north south main in lines, for example. They're not enough on the.

This west access IT was in the city centres that we didn't because that was seen partly has been a good way to make real less to make some cash was to sell off that land, prime real estate and city centres rather than retaining. And often they ended up getting used for nasty urban motorways and shit like that. So yeah, but now the handle of the car drop is about slam because next slide.

please. My god, I don't .

even have that can make I do. And I. Because sixty three was reshaping, sixty five was the time that we move from british railways and the limping blind to the double arrow.

The corporate identity sybel, i've behind me have a copy of the corporate identity manual. B R. B R got shit hot and you know all of the site started at looking really modern. IT wasn't just the branding, branding very important, but IT wasn't just the branding gled the overall system really started modernizing at this point. IT was kind of uh of the end of the of of the beginning for um um yeah so IT IT was the end of the beginning, if you like, for the way that british rail and british rail Operations as a unified thing would be this kind of the point in which from this point on this we knew kind of what we needed to do and we start getting .

on with doing it's like deadly serious like this is the age of the train. Yeah but like still we're like lean into this, right? yeah.

And we did in a big way. You did the A P T episode one hundred and fifty years ago. And actually part of that was the optimism of the future.

There was a really positive, optimistic view of what the features can look like. And we did spends quite a bit money on research, be on research, as was a bean of light that genuinely reveal gate. We do the reason we have high speed rail across the world is because of the world that was done, that to be our research department.

Allen weakens that, that, thankfully, still alive, actually one of the great rail engineers of in history, still alive. I'd love to go meet up in the northeast. He gave the world advanced the old dampers and the science behind how to make the train go fast in one hundred and twenty five miles hour.

And IT was thanks to him that everyone else could do you. The T. G. V. Would not exist without him.

You know, you could not do high speed conventional rail without the work that he did. So that was all happy. Thanks to be on. So thank you. B, R.

no, I says the are with all to do basic research anymore.

And as a ice of like design as i'm going to talk about this so much. But like every single thing about the brand, whether this is whether it's like the ruin of power as we see here or even just stuff I I mentioned sexualization before because it's something that I really struck me as like, hey, we're gna have like we're going to divide up of the main frame structure into like a kind of series of things that like make sense, like cold steel aggregates and like like parcs and shit. But we're also going to make sure each of them has like a distinct, visible, uh, like identity that's gonna beautiful as well, even if it's going to be on A D O locomotive that's covered .

in like dust the time, yeah.

it's unit there, a few narrow gage steam locomotives that survived for a long time under british rail control that eventually .

got the double hero. And the blue well is specifically the one in in appreciate the radio valley line that had that had the B. R.

Blue steam locals. Very weird. So yeah, lots of other successes at this point. So I was so from this point onwards, we still had and we still had pretty messy industry relations going on like was very, for example, fight over whether at the fact they only had one seat in front cab ended up costing more than the whole researched product back budget of A P T year. So clearly, they're still messes.

But IT was also appeared of kind of substantial modernization improvement that we kind of had a loosely rolling program for activation across various lines as you were the demise of a beaching. Um not not literally didn't kill him, but they told him more explosive inventions and so barbera s came up and and gave us passed the transport ectivity so that was kind of doing some level of devolution to city regions to allow them to take control their national services. So there's lots of because of lots of station openings.

And by the middle ties, we actually had a turnaround in passion numbers. So rap and passion numbers dropping that that kind leveled off through the through the eighties and started climb, but kind of eight to eighty three that the line go up. Which good the situation .

where you know british right was doing more and more stuff. And you're just like, you know how stressing said the other the other week that like britain was in danger of being an N H S. With the country attached and how this was some terrible like unspeakable faith, right? I think we should like should have let into that, right? And just like we do for communism under the osprey of british rail, like it's a contact .

the train .

company with with the country, attach actually to the backwards .

in mexico and put the navy under control of the the why.

how much I would love that we made, in a way, B, R. To have a little navy to talk in a minute. So so next one please. So briefly. So I looked to the transparent in nineteen six eight.

This time was the first time when the bridge government acknowledge that really aren't IT aren't just going to make a profit in and of themselves and they serve a public good, a social good. And they started quantifying IT, and therefore understanding how much money of social good justified the rail is getting, which is quite, if also passed to transport areas, you, what became the P. S.

And a sort of devolving power. A brief bit of light of a brief moment where we have the right kind of network structure before the bad thing times. Let's let's talk forward together that, that was one thousand and sixty eight. We ford.

We have to jump a couple years forwards to this though, because one of the things that we are started doing was kind of hiving off bits of itself into sort of subsidiaries that were wholly owned, but were also their own corporate structure. So in one thousand hundred and seventy, we had an organization called british rail engineering limited created. Brown is often referred to. And this is the start of a slippery slope, folks. So, so pay close attention this.

So making making british oil into a kind of a like style in cuba, know what has spent out?

yeah. So the orel was the train manufacturer. So this covered all of the places that made almost all the places that made the train. And so actually building with them things next, like please, because there are other things that started getting hive off. So here, so the, in fact, on the left inside, in fact, this one's feel over the old, the glass to works there, still doing some really way stuff.

Beautiful a from light.

I think we can do.

We used to build things in this country, namely wildly shape vehicles that would be used in the .

terrible ilan film, brazil. That's a reach on a wonderful, I was so shared .

on the flat car.

So on the left, on side.

Someone doing back holidays in one of these outside ports, god shooting back of the head.

so on yet Brown on one thing. But in one hundred and seventy nine and ceiling that. So the facts we talk about, they are having a navy.

They did have a navy, quite large one. They don't make guns particularly, but they had a big navy of of a ferries, pretty massive, davy. And some of those files are pretty modern as they continue modernized.

I did episodic. See link a while back. It's kind of interesting history. And in eighteen seventy nine, h ceiling was formed as its own subsidiary, y, which also have let the bell in french rail is kind of part able into which this is a photo from A I suspect brew is is a belgian .

belgian freak attempt to to ship a static caravan, an on a right?

exactly.

My distasted caravan enthusiast would never, in his wild dreams like I considered this.

you know? yeah. So this is departing. Maybe this is my own friends and some nice, very nice kind of mainland european locomotive.

There was some some stuff on that. Very nice, nice pictures, lovely. And so those two. Now, the first actual promoted zen of british rail happened in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when we so next time.

please, I, I, I just noticed, like these cars just look so fucking old, a car cement .

on the .

roofs and everything.

Yeah, yeah. Those have gotta be like to work that they're all, they're really, they're really, really lovely, beautiful stuff. So next time, please, because in one thousand nine hundred and eighty two british, british transport hotels are sold off. This is the first actual private zon Operation rail is when the british transport hotels, which was part of the r we're sold off. So R I P to the station hotel and ability in the government.

Italian about it's it's a great idea and like it's one that still being capitalized on now that like you have a train station that has a hotel attached to IT, you want to worry about getting to your train like there's these still exist in a lot of places that just privates you get like an entrance from the station to the hotel is called something else has like three corporate fucking identities.

And even if because rail we've got faster, there's not as much of a need for overnight days. You know what's not a bad idea for a railway that has lots of, I don't know, cancellation well, have that as well. But also like these things, double up as conference senators and training senators and might have been a good idea to to just half hotels and make income from the question mark are .

on a particular long run and the crew has to stay overnight. Well, if you are on hotel, that's a lot cheaper.

And the and also having these time to be okay. So again, britain, small enough, the need for these had certainly diminish the increase. But we do lots of overnight shifts that are near railways, and maybe having hotels that the people with their oranges could go to sleep in overnight might also not been a bad idea.

A abb ID pain travel lodge, you know, over above ods, so that's national alist traveller, is nationalized, travelled exactly. So let's jump ford to the next log. And a picture I took yesterday, in fact, of the footstep of a york built train, train MIT broil york train makers to the world.

There we go. This, this is on foot t step of a class one fifty sprinter. So a lot of you are listening to this right now.

Watching this will have a visual image of that which should entertain you greatly of the idea of that being exported to world. Anyway, note. So in nineteen eighty four, ceiling were sold off proper.

In one thousand nine hundred eighty eight, bell was sold off proper. So that was sold often. Then they were managing riots and all the boring corporate ship that happens in we are new liberal world where stuff gets prioritize.

But yes, so as sarel was privates ed, and crucially, I said we're going talk about sandwich es. And travellers fair was sold off in one hundred eighty as well. Travellers fair was the B R, sort of catering organization. And one of the watched was upper crust.

some name that the punds. You know, I knew you to be liked over a private invention quite IT .

was of course, all the good stuff ends up being a state invention. So yeah up cross, which is still in lost stations in the U. K.

And will still have an immensely overPriced and disappointing first IT exists. So hurry up because I didn't say we were going to talk about sandwiches also, trouble sadly get. Yeah, yes, yeah, I mean, yeah, I I mean, god, I would love a chee state right now. I think .

even advice to I enjoy every sandwich. Very difficult if you live in britain even more be regularly traveled by train. Yeah I mean it's it's also this thing because it's kind like one of the biggest like kind of um sort of thing targets on british back was the catering for a long yes, you know you get like of the famously terrible sandwich, right and then you look at how much this famous terrible sound like burger or ever cost units like like seventy um as opposed to know where you get like the still the worst food ever but that costs you like a five.

What exactly is IT was in the sandwiches that made IT so terrible, but I need a description of of the british house.

I can answer this for by the fact that I was on a transplant, an express train and large segment of the audience, or kind of get a sense of i'm going with this and I had, I like a vegan sausage bp that you could only describe as, say, tank. So every, every different component of this was, I suspects, made of like a slightly different witness level of carbon.

I I don't know how I survived the experience, but like just like meant to be hot, Normally heated and like a cold and hard as bone um yeah no I I think british rail right because people got used to the like very striking design because IT became invisible. Lize became like dismal and but to people and so you get a lot of like a sort of Clark soni an takes about IT yes solution. You know you get like so so gray bee forever and sort like grey navy blue and grey and grey and .

it's like the world sandwich in the world.

Exactly we exactly what .

to inter IT because IT was a stay entity. We ended up in parting our and this is kind of a general class thing and there's all sorts of annoying british that gets round into this. But like B R kind of like, well, it's an incredibly good thing, an incredible successful on lots of different metrics.

IT kind of we're going to Better to jump force to one thousand nine hundred ninety, will jump in next line in a second bit. Like IT very much started to well and not started to IT throughout its entire lifetime. Like the upper class is hated IT, because I was IT. IT was the polls being in charge of a big thing and and in some cases, being in charge of their beloved railway. The bates are good so much against all the great grandfather that are good so much against one hundred .

years before I do so. Not, by the way, in passing the british rail sand, which does have a like, fairly extensive wikipedia article course.

What I don't get is, you know, we don't. I mean, i'm tracks service, a beauty, mediocre food, but it's .

that is IT A D up a life .

of a memmi is wherever that bad. They just kind of build up a bit a bit of an allegory for being probably popular by a two running sketch or whatever. They they like build up this banality, like all is the state running things. And we have to like just struggle at the penalty of the state running things and the other, and is a little bit of that chip on the shelter thing about those chippy americans with their entrepreneur .

ism and Oliver shit. I just I feel like a post soviet russian right in that like i'm not saying IT wasn't bad, but i've seen the alternative. Sit down.

Yeah yeah. exactly. Everything toe .

is everything they told IT ism, the truth.

So it's some tours in next lide. Sorry, David, i'm so sorry we've got .

slow do this.

So realization.

you can look at every single one of these, a beautiful corporate identity.

Look, services.

I sorry, sorry.

I Y transit britain. My first commute .

school was a network southeast, still just about networker in class three sixty five. I want to say, yeah very likely the noise that those things like uh is like embedded in my skull at this point. I have fond memories.

Um actually we use the southern. And then I have been in four.

six, five, also been shortlands .

out to west with the the slammed .

doors.

No, no.

that put doors. I still to the reg.

And the slam doors are like in my head, is what my dad tax to to work at, like canon street.

And actually i'm glad you bring those trains up. B R hadn't just been like, oh, we've made our our old naked translate nice by this point. So this is ninety ninety right by this point B R had absolutely turn things around.

Ah you know we had a railway that was the I was incredibly prety riders should have been in client solid since the midnight and eighties. Average subsidy was as low as like twenty percent of running costs, which was among the the the most efficient railway in europe. Like pretty impressive stuff.

You know we had even in london which fun enough had ended up with a lot of the oldest stock being left over. We started seeing a ruling program of fleet renewal. So we've seen regional railers getting new fleets overseas en into city to had by this point, we were starting to see the appearance of the two, two five as well. So we started to see fleet mogan ization right across the board, which is cascine stuff down and getting into the really old car. Shit.

don't have a compartment. You don't have a door. You can't do this, I forget. Which, like some of british accents, c this was whose train went past, is god on the way home. And he used to, like, pull down the window, throw his briefcase in god s Carrying home.

Ite.

possible? yes. yeah. The good stuff. So at the time also. So so let's s let's look forward slide.

Actually because often people site private zone is being this wonderful explosion in riders ship. And it's all because of private zone. But that's because what they do is chop the ex access off at the start of protium ation.

But if rose, if you john madness, the line that's act like kind of look at draw madness in one thousand nine hundred ninety and see where the line is around them and and then look at where if you go back to one thousand nine ninety can see that things have been climbing. Since the mis. So exactly that line. Thanks for .

yeah perfect. I didn't it's about the last light. Didn't have my favorite british rail. So have the thing which red star .

parcels that unless .

you forget that all of these people were like crypto .

come and fun story, red star parcel, the massive logo is still attached to the north facing .

side of used on stage on me.

literally red star passes was the express rapid parcel delivery scheme that use like kind of basically passenger express trains to move stuff. It's a very good idea and one asked with so many things in the really in the process of very expensively reinventing IT right now.

And so yeah so on the one side, you've got the riders ship showing you how IT kind of IT dropped through through from the of the postwar is drop through to the kind of the middle is and then started to climbing. And for the reasons why IT dropped off again in the early none that will get to in a moment. They're volt cocaine, but the the the next draft and shows you the government subsidies and showing that subsidies and were extremely low in the few the eighties.

They climbed to IT for cocaine reasons in the early nineties and then dropped again in the final years of B. R. So next time, please, a very briefly, so much. Oh yes, ask the question.

I have heard that a good amount of this ridership uptake is like all T F L.

not entirely a good chunk of us. But no, actually we had a lot of climbing usage in the cyc outside of london as well. So it's not entirely london actually.

I do have a version of this the split s between the different but the but IT no, it's not quite that yeah it's perhaps that whoever told that my slightly oversold, certainly a major component because fun enough. The only place that we really built a good suburban urban rail network was london. A fun enough when you build that railway, people will use IT, talking of which, a talking of london rail investments.

So next light, it's one thousand nine ninety. And we have this funny thing called tms link, providing the first hyper acis urban ring through london. Next light, again, we have planning for this funny old thing, crossrail here and running.

Yes, so that's all these ultimately things. We will go to the next light. We were even talking about planning for new high speed rAilings between the channel tunnel, london and the .

north of an idea you could get a train from a, you know, from rome all the way to glasgow and have to be like two hundred miles and the whole way through yeah.

even on a sliding more monday e level. We had the this funny project called the transplant on root upgrade being mounted in in one thousand nine hundred ninety. Very interesting.

The next line. Sorry, ross, I did say we get through them work. So yeah, transport up great here, which sure that is long deliver preuve ly finished in the mid nineties. And then so go to hole, go to how you have some .

kind of a transplant in express put yes actually .

to take the transport express with a brand name that they are came up with them did stick on some of their funny curvy window glass fronted dm use for all um so and actually if you want to read about some of the stuff that the B R was was in the proof of doing in in ninety ninety and then you can go the next slight please. You can have a look at this nice report called that future rail the next decade. Nice optimistic thing.

The trouble is, as soon as this document was published, the fact that we, well, we have to, of course, jump for the next live, please, nineteen ninety one. And there's this guy appearing, firstly shared to my daily, have a jacket. weird. The same page. We are the same as me, this tiny.

little weird w, i'm not supplying a baby factory or for the forecast.

I, is this T M, I for for the hugs. Now maybe you know, what we have to talk about is cocaine. Because what happens? Yeah, say next lide, please.

Because one hand, when your entire economies run by people just insanely coke up ah well they also makes stupid decisions. And obviously that went to absolute the U K. Economy, the financial ze economy, in fact the world economy went to complete rh IT in early nineteen.

Um indeed. So what happen there was, uh, we'd had in the U. K, at least we'd had to a decade of feature, and as all having no money. And so the line, the reason the rise that started in the eighties dropped back again in the early nineteen because a decade of a decade of charity may take trains.

Fucking told you so.

yeah, I mean, much more .

prominently. But like you even, even kindness, and tells you this .

is gonna en a drop money from helicopters.

drop money from helicity, and you go to next life. Because more more, fuck that. Economists, we're gonna involved in this situation.

At those fucci economists are the the horror show tough and street Adams Smith institute folks on the treasury. Now, what are these fun, fun loving guys, uh, get up to? Well, what they do is they they get together.

They presume ly to get up to nothing, the ferrous, and they are next life. Please publish a document called new opportunities for the railways, or should I say, heavily input into the White paper, new opportunities for the railways. So up to one hundred and ninety, no one was, can not. Even thatcher was countering national, privatizing private zing. What was left to british ia, which just be fair, was most of british ia was still just one thing bridge.

It's like it's too deeply ebel ded and also people a kind of fond of IT and kind of love to hate sort of way like as much as the of that you get the sandwich thing.

It's also like this is a kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly and complaining about .

shit that we do well in this country. We love that we cannot get enough .

of IT enough get and not destroying the good .

things you accidentally ally start believing the stuff you're .

complaining about. We are doing IT now to the N I S. Yeah the cycle fucking repeats itself and there's not much left to do IT. So after that.

so this this document in new opportunities, the railways was absolutely penned by a combination, the treasury at the Adams Smith institute. The reason why no one had been really canm in protection, and the rail is despite access stripping, everything else, was because the railways were just too complicated. There were too many interrelated moving parts. IT was also a safety critical industry in a way that was that made kind of the way that risk would flow through the the industry quite complicated as well.

That was like quite strategic, like in the same way like stalin never fucking with his nuclear of physicists. It's like you want this kind of state capacity until you don't.

Yes, exactly. So july one, ninety ninety two, this thing was published and IT was a mess. IT proposed what can only be describe as an optimization of the rail network.

And there is there is one guy this, this conservative mp, Robert adleman, who is like the chair of the transport, to committed the time. In his words, successive appearance of ministers and officials in the committee has shown a deep lack of understanding of how their proposed system would fit together. But then he died of heart failure. Remain ninety .

ninety .

three. So .

ja.

sorry, sorry, try to fix IT. So next time, please. They did that. They did the the crazy thing. So okay, deep breath. This is the rail is at one thousand nine hundred and three, which is an act to provide for the appointment function of a rare, regular interactive passage rail franchise of users, consolation committees for the rail industry in for certain ferry services to make new provision with respect to provision railway service in the present by whom they are provided or secure provision to make vision foregate connection with the grand and acquisition of .

rights over on the disposal of other transfer investing of any I love, I love state construction. Can you see? I didn't want .

rea take america, the all share time something? Yes, the unit and strengthened amErica by providing appropriate tools required to intercept the abstract terrorism, the seas. U. S, A pay close bread act of two thousand. One.

say so um you should at most use one semi. really.

My dad used to watch colleton back. Uh, hi dad. hi. I was listening.

Yes.

we're onna get.

There was to see how long he could .

last before he turned the TV off and rage.

oh, I see your .

time himself at the hilarity. E at last, but gland bags. Great complaint about, and what are the right when talking points about the of what can act when I came out was like worlds too long. All the .

united states .

of amErica hereby adopt the health care authorities are done. Bone, oh, man, I I shout to liam's dad, you know, that would be beautiful. yes. So real good takes about about cuba the other day of, wo are we in trouble with .

dad for episode?

No, like I to try to get them to have either. Just once before my dad dies, he should see the fruits of his labor. Oh yeah, so, so next .

certainly intervened a to prevent several castro .

assassination attempts from my ebook. I would actually love to say that. Thank you. The mechanical beautiful.

Thank so this act, what did IT do? Well, I use the word atomization earlier. And so I decided to do a diagram to show you what that looks like. So his british rail on one side of on the other side, if we go next time, please. It's a military powerpoint .

episode. what?

And I I have simplified this slightly. And so strong legalization over here from one organza british rail, you end up with the first entity being created with rail track, which took over the refrain cure electrical stations.

They've got transl on there, which I I still think it's funny to have a switch that with transworld logo on IT.

Yeah so so that was a real trick of the infrastructure, but he wasn't in charge. Infrastructure intends run o and seven inflection ture maintenance units and six track real units were set up a to a split off of maintenance Operation that yeah and we're only get installed. Six free Operating companies were created um and a twenty five train Operating units there there a little blue of a kind of alien six .

Price of ising companies rail express services, one of the sexualization ones that showed, remember yes, mainline load hall a transfer freightliner and weird triangle of the .

weir triggers, I think is actually the weird bit of for the freight line. And while it's just my bad logo size shaping .

for try I know .

what is a IT I must prefer the one with the B R. Next to you bricks then that not the worst bit of IT though, because and we are okay of the whole a bunch of regulating and franchise authorities and safe regulators. And where did that? But the evil is part of this, the most evil part of this.

I talked about the fact that br script and saved to have this rolling, rolling stock kind of renewal and this know winded up by this point, quite a decent fleet in terms of age, like, okay, lots of mark one stuff stuff flow around. But actually the br had kind of got into rolling program of sleeve renewal. Enter the roscoes, the rolling Operating companies, three of the Angel of al important break all still extent, there are others who have entered the phrase ince, but these three are still a big players.

And they were at the start all the consortia of banks and private equity and and interesting things at what what did they do? They got all these trains for unbelievable cheap Prices, like criminally ep Prices. I you basically, they then least these back to train Operators.

And I watching costs with no oversight whatsoever. This continues to be the main flow of cash out of the industry. And its absolute zero coin stance that these groups were fun at all their cash via lower zero .

tax regions. I am sure many read the economy and like trickles down.

Yeah, the only trickling going on was the the shit in the piece out of the out of the the kind of the room storage tanks that in the old to stop that they have because the trouble of the roscoes, we've landed this kind of a massive cheap asset that they could run out a high Price and spend money. But why spend money on exactly? So that basically killed the U.

K. Train manufacturing industry. So we lost in an next math protez ation.

But the only orders that remained were kind of b of orders that were kind of rolling over a new passenger trains, then wouldn't built until like kind of the early two thousands. And we lost too much. Well, we lost every single trade manufactured in the U.

K. Except for the one in arby. They all went. We've since then opened new plants at extreme cost in new apple, new port, but they're we kill our train in factory industry as a result of the roscoes thank you.

Procession before. And I mean, well, I guess really the thing the thing that gets me here, this is all being done in the name of efficiency through competition, right? Exactly and and if you look if if you know any railroad history um like globally, um competition between railroad has always been kind of fake.

Yeah yeah it's always a if .

you don't like your roscoe, you can go and rent your trying carriage for another roscoe 估， which is the same three hedge funds in a trench code, but the trench code is a different color.

Whatever there's like actual competition going on, it's always destructive and IT leads to a rate war that eventually drives both companies to pancre pts.

Yeah if they were serious about this roscoes, we will be going out in sabotaging rolling stock .

about the companies windows .

in vil unna a date.

Yeah sorry, remember? Yeah no. yeah. interesting. With three companies refused to fit stuff on their trains that would even they would make their journey more efficient, such as like Better, Better standing equipment if IT risked improving the traction for the out there competing fright train running behind them.

And likewise with so one of the one of the fun things about the the rolling Operating companies is, say, one of the train Operators wanted to fit a of nice like new kid on the train, like they are like a will pay for IT. They're ruling the Operator. So say it's like sensors improve the time.

like hose down tracked, like the light side grows with like shit and peace.

Yes, having been on having been one side and had those trains go past and had it's not a very clearly no, the rolling to Operating companies behind the train, Operating companies to god to strip all that stuff back out of the train when they came awlung yet really, really efficient system. So yeah, you lose to precise this point, which is the psychopath and treasure in the atos with institute the whole british economy. And it's only more true today, is built around the idea that value comes from the interfaces between the things that do stuff, not from the things that do stuff. And that was very much the logic of of of, of practice .

ation seeking, which, as we know, adam Smith was like a big fan. Yeah.

yeah. That's why they invented the train landor's.

yep. And so we have literal train landlords. We had rail track at this point, very much not what that regal is at this point. Rail track very much a contract making organization that didn't see itself in the business of being an engineering company despite having, you know what, sixteen thousand miles of railway to its name and also hold bunch like the same number, again, of engineers, a skilled engineers that promptly attempted to sacked out, or just germany. I make .

their life horrible. So raska also caused problems.

would like the availability ruling stocks. So you up, why one carriage I fill every inch IT filled with people. The thing .

about having a leasing, about leasing a train, is the more coaches, at least the more expensive IT is to lease the train. So you end up in a situation where, okay, so for, okay, your train might be full.

You don't not super fool, basically, you end up the situation of trains way to short, right? And also it's not just okay, there are lots of other reasons why trains is short, but you also buy consequence of that, you remove some of the incentives to fix the infrastructure reasons why trains have be sure as well. So this just all of this incentivises a situation where the rail is either get hitter or the rate of which they were improving slows down massively. Now just let's maybe, you know, everyone watching and listening to this, you thought this was just going to be one of those some of systemic big picture disaster episodes. No, let's go to next time and ask, how did this go in itself?

yes.

So we've interesting.

We've not done any of these four because, o boy, there's another one. So this is the sample le crash, the sample real disaster. And this resulted. The recall of this was a lack of effective communication between the fragmented parts of the new industry. Oops, all sorts of horrible things going on here of of like protection system being isolated and trains crossing and signals doing this, and drivers being stupid, not trained, nothing, lots of actually driver wasn't okay. This driver was of its stupid, but actually IT was IT was a very much a failure of the new.

of the new fragment structure.

I can able to be a like this. This was not good. So so yeah um seven people were killed, one hundred and four and others were severely injured, very much not good.

So i'm sure this is not the not the, not the. We're going to say another one of these next slide, please all boys yeah so only just up the line. Two years that was ninety ninety seven in one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine, thirty one people were killed.

A lab road growth and which was as a result of poor safety regulation and poor safety oversight of the new railway structure. Ah oh dear. Um yeah.

And this is a pretty terrific. I mean, we talk about there was nice, nice turbo network of turbo that they go around, did not alium bodied thing. The first car and second car were basically burst open by being hit head on by an an ht go in a full till.

Is this the one that there's like a pretty graphs .

video of I that there's like a fake C C T fee video of this? I'm not sure if there's a real video of this one. Actually there is a youtube video. I'm not sure it's the, but maybe, maybe this is the real one and i've just told myself that is fake to deal with the fact that it's horses.

But was maybe scale a bit? Not sure yeah.

but maybe IT might be that IT was from like like a dispatches episode, like some documentary and they kind of upscaled but yet really thirty one people die. A that's a really nasty rail crash in the U. K. It's working as we get to the midpoint of these horror shows that overall safety did continue to improve through the like. Okay, these are some big, prominent, very public failures and crashes, but overall, safety did continue to improve on the rain.

Liberty, I do just want to put a flag and stand on that like that like, and that's not because of private zone, is because you still hand all the same people work in industry and going, actually, I kind of want safety to get Better. There are some other secondary inadvertent side effect of safety that may be were improved by processing as a result of everyone becoming super risk averse. But I still think that as we go to the next slide, please, we will see his head field in october two thousands. And this is an accident that I, I, I want to spend just a minute longer talking about. And this is disaster podcast.

and maybe you should spend longer talking about, do all of these as episodes .

and do time well, exactly, and would be very interesting to do so because they all pretty frightening in in different ways. So this failure was specifically infrastructure failure. IT is pretty, pretty instructive on me as a track engineer and how we do track engineering, both in the design of railways, also the maintenance and inspection of of the rails themselves. But I I just want to read from some twice book, actually paid hundred and twenty three of some twice book. So basically I just want to quote from what the report started talking about, when about rail track, right?

So so we we always talk about the fact the rail track informed, uh, the fact that I saw itself primarily a contract management organza IT retained as little of its specialist engineer knowledge as possible by its very design and kind of the structure, the industry that involved kind of very separate contractor subcontractors, those those like infrastructure main since units and track renewed units, they're just like all run by like companies like jarvis and and like first engineering and all these of things that question question are red flag rates. And so so like skills and knowledge, we're like deliberately split apart in such a way that no single responsible person was both competent and empowered enough to like match engineer knowledge to decision making. So what seems what is like IT was deliberately split up.

So if you new stuff, you had absolutely no power. And if you were, uh, if you were like, yes, so no single person had both the knowledge and the competence and the knowledge, competence and decision making. And those are open up the treat .

to put the M B S. In charge.

They know know how we like supposed to be in these like safety over roles were note like consciously just NBA guys yeah I is that we're .

doing business success here. We're doing super business success. I'm finding efficiencies.

You know i'm engaging like .

contracts awarded and i'm finding .

that i'm i'm selling .

train tickets.

It's so to be rounded up and executed a hundred one of Robert leaves .

other horrible contributions to .

the world is so, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, shoving all to the end, the brand and pear. So pear, I know, right? It's a big peer. So just for clarity, what happened at this accident was that a lengths of rail about thirty five meters long shattered into about two hundred pieces underneath the train go on under fifty miles an hour. This beautiful intitial de to five thirty five meters of rail shattered like a dropped vas into over two hundred pieces. There are a few pieces of the national real is go and see and just say the word fuck on the breath a few times when you look at them and the the train going around the curve swing to the outside of the curve and the restaurant car, the kind of the day the of the shop car bit he an early mass and was ripped apart. And not in all the fatalities were in that.

In that way, you're just buying this kind of like early privatization sandwich thinking.

can my life get me worse? Killing now mediately taken out .

of the worse you, the staff member serving the thing. Was mostly staff who got killed in that car for them, wiped out in in their absolutely terrific out along with a lot of injuries pretty unpleasant. Thankfully, IT was reasonably isolated because these mark four coaches were really decent in a crash.

And um yeah and kind of the the design of that particular car just had just managed to sort of snatch out of the energy. So this could have been a lot worse. Thankful wasn't, but still no really horrible. So i'm just gna read out.

So so the thing that LED to this was the fact that there was an absolutely shagged rail that they knew they needed to take out and replace and they basically could not get meant they they didn't really understand quite how bad IT was. Or the people who did have the power to tell the others that, that was step bad and they could not get access to actually replace the rain in the fresh place. I'm just going quick read to think because is going to make you miserable and really angry.

So the other source maintenance contractor did not comply with the engineering standards in relation to defect management or Carry out inspections to deliver the detail report. They did not employ staff content to inspect or access tract effects, or the maintenance tenant employ to minimize the rik result from them, grounding trains that could have prolonging of life or Operate by a separate contractor and infrequently, and guidelines asked to the use of grounding trains were held by rail track central engineering team that no one had access to. Ultrasonic testing was screaming on each past that the rail was shared, but this received little attention from the intense contractor.

Yes, I use the words shared in my book. I vote that I get to do that records worse, this that gets worse and fright. I'm going to briefly because it's just it's so that the precision of how measurable this is to import records were sent to rail tracks as zonal management, but few stuff at this level were capable of renewing those are reviewing those records.

The view of its highly paid executive staff was that rail track was a contract manager, not an engineer organization. This like to contain frenching skills in the recruitment of totally and quality high staff, among whom there is also high turnover. The zone compliance, an engine, managed a response for the section track and how fail failed to comprehend what track work was being undertaken and what was required. And i'm quoting here because of its technical nature. But yes.

is a railway. My railway job.

kind of the zone quality .

standards manager, in his own words, did not have the knowledge of railway engineering nor railway set. Why not? yeah. So in the words of the independent investigation, published a about six years later, rail track was not putting safety as the number one objective in its maintenance strategy. You, that kind of your job, I just feel like I need sorry for to slowing things down.

Reading that I just wanted to lay out the level of of what are the short words use is evil within this organza that resulted in people dying. This in transience had horrific outcomes. And the entrances was as a direct result of the province zing of the U.

K. Of the gb. Sorry, rail network north. The islands rail is, by the way, at this point, still nationalized. Got the north of ireland, indeed the north yeah and the area is were also and I look forward to the unification of those rail networks for a good reasons are all right.

I'm afraid folks, we're not done because next time, please, two years later and two years later decided to tumble a class three six five, like some kind of almost like a horry train getting kicked down a sofa, tumble classy six five full of commuters into porters by railway station at in the meantime, knocking the parapet down in flattening like a hot, fast, full staff, flattening some poor lady on on the bridge below with a bunch of brick power. wow. So this was as a result of, oh yes, that's right. The outsource infrastructure maintenance teams not looking after a switch properly, which opened under the train and sent IT tumbling into the canopy of porter bar station. And yet again, we find ourselves killing .

passengers .

and seven of .

them .

multi here, or them, six of them on the lady under the bridge, really horrific. And now the .

first thing is not so good in .

real life IT isn't a not not when you're going to under miles hour. So yeah, not good at. So as result of these this spread of accidents, there are a lot of changes in the industry.

And if we go to next lide, the big one was a fuckyou rail. Right off the case now, ca arrived net korea was A A essentially government body, although at this point I was kind of one of the of weird half and half like arms lend things. But IT was essentially a government company.

And after POS barn, all infrastructure intention was brought back in house as well, which was not only a good idea from a safety perspective, but also much cheaper. Know just fun enough when you don't have a bunch of individual companies, you're going to run contracts form and you just do IT all and has is a lot cheap er to do this stuff. So now as I said, my overall passengers and work as safety had continue to improve.

But these massively, not not visible public tragedies really let me properly exposed how much of a mess this was as pressure drawing IT up. So bad news, very bad news. Grill ended up becoming officially a public border in twenty and thirteen.

So what else is going on then? Um we've new labor came in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven after all of this prompted zone would be finished. And we ended up with all of our ruling to our train Operating companies in such what did you need labor do to reverse this and make the a system Better next time, please?

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name so I feel like i'm giving you. A I know know what, I have to live here and we have to drink the water. I forgot to say, I just, do you have any idea how much .

poo is in the .

water that .

we drink every day?

So don't want to hear about I don't like I understand this just based on like the the finance provoking of everything, but just still makes me so god, they have upset that like we had a perfectly good system that we would just shit piss all over IT to make a few N B, A decades from, do however the fuck you want to business school, fuck you would fuck tobacco road. Uh, the expense of like Normal people .

who B A R MBA don't really have like a sport tangle you can make them feel bad with .

you can't really be. What you're going to do is walk to break here, right?

You're going to biggest .

red shoes you can find and do as a favor.

I think would be funny if in britain they were all inexplicably to column though yeah.

I just .

asked.

what mean you to? What's the shy business school? I hate dos.

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get off of I gets fine. No, i'm just going to i'm just gna take a bunch of people to brighten peer for the site seeing is why yeah right so it's a strategic real with authority gets created by new labor and in theory, it's a kind of a good thing but is very much a sticking plate on a messy system that clear this is is starting to well, is not start to caused a lot of problems and death.

Ah so you know IT does start awarding these longer term franchise. There are some kind of actual strategy thinking going on. If if not, they're actually having the funding parents to back IT up.

And but there are problems of the structure of this industry that that cause real headaches the sa could not really resolve. Next line, please, we have to talk about again, the west coast mainline. So here is the west coast mainline.

And this is this is a half way through them for tracking the trend valley and and doing little left fiction kind provide. But basically we ended up spending what in today's money is about twenty five billion quid on upgrading the west cow's mainline between london and and kind of manchester and glass. Go and live for and don't wrong.

Fantastic project. No uh, if we we achieved a tremendous increase in capacity that was used up every sea used up before we even finished the project. So before we d even signed the contract on completing the west klse route modernization, every new sea of capacity we created had been sin by new passengers so ah yeah do not enough folks.

The trouble is this project was an absolute show, so the west has mainland being considered to the crown for a long time. IT was electrogram modernized through other modernization plan in the fifties and sixties and into the seventies, in fact, with elevation reaching classroom every but B, R. Before IT been prominent ed, that actually develop plans to significant outside de the route kind of along this train that were looking at now also know as a bandy dildo O I think i've made everyone laugh about that.

The shock for please laugh again. IT was IT was a tiltings train. IT is a tilting train, uh kind of with recycled A P T technology ish and a run about weight.

And yeah this running up and down beyond had already kind of have plans for this, not leads towsy. We knew about the tilting trains but also in intact ced. You know, more upgrades in terms of speed and for tracking in such as such and actually a newfiles of trains as well.

But that got delayed because of protestation array by one thousand hundred and ninety. Passenger growth was really putting stress on the roots. Everyone's favourite beauty decade, Richard branson was one.

Introduce these trains. It's always good when someone owns in island. And the .

british version in island's, right? Always good. Yeah, totally. Al.

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We don't think David have fun with this bit. And so you have to get the united .

states of america.

There's no billions could ever like, interfere that. No.

I I cover davy in the idea bath of I rescued from a ten mother fucker. I've gonna a you seven and you know, whenever it's fine, he had a good flame set me off. So the sra came along, the student rail threat came along, kon a half through this project, emerging money and achieving very little.

So by two thousand and two cost of reason for this project, from two point five billion to fourteen point five billion in then money, which is like about thirty five billion now in post trust cash. And the scope of the project had been like significant cattail. So this thing was supposed to provide, like incap signal, one hundred forty miles now everywhere.

And IT was like, no, no, one hundred twenty five miles an regulate signal um less capacity improvements but they know they still delivered IT. But basically any benefits that I actually afford IT has an increased capacity or personal immediately absorbed and indeed before the rain works had even complete two thousand and eight IT became quite clear that, oh, we needed, we still need to do that new high speed land that B, R. Had started talking about in nineteen and ninety. And so which cos rot moniz ation had made treasury angry again. So next time, please, as A G U, A 4， before I get another laser pig video, bit about .

really taking that a hot, no, I I will .

never surrender by stoa G A U A and titi a bath up. I keep a red rose basement milk.

That's my mind. So right?

The usual authority had had kind of provided the religion with some level long term vision in a death amount of organization, kind of autonomy, real proxy ized, kind of slow IT down. But but the kind of the start award in these twenty year franchise es, which did help fix some of the stupid issues of the early kind of protests, ation years.

And this, however, was an absolute enough this this kind of long term m was basically made everyone in treasury get a 呃 tommey。 And so what they did was at next line, please, they killed IT. Yeah, and they just killed us. To do real though, I give you you're gone you off the case so yeah, that was like, how many years was that? Not many years.

Like a few years the treatment rail authority existed for and then IT was killed off and and that was that was kind of like, yeah, treasure their last gasp well, if if only that was their last gas, that was that that was treasure going into a world in charge. And so a lot of stuff ended up being brought back into dt. And we find ourself in a situation where the df and central government had more control over the railways than at any time in the railway history, including under br, like the central government had not have this level control under br, that IT ended up getting after the collapse of her or or the pistol in the back of the head of the S.

R. A. Ah, so it's A A whistle soap tour. This is IT, but this, this is the mess that was private zone. This is the whole point, right?

The abode is to tell you how much a fucking show show IT was and all of these kind of sticking plaster did not solve the big problem was this was bad. So this job, forced to two thousand. And what a wonderful job the new labor government had done of railways? not.

And so one thousand and seven, they decided to actually talk about them a little 储备。 And so we have this paper release called delivering a sustained railly. Now what this paper did was IT said we're not gonna fy anything else.

We're going to use BIOS everywhere that's going. yeah. So that's how we're going to run.

The thing is sometimes, and this is we'd given how much of A, A, A, you'll see what I mean when we go to slide. Sometimes a nerd comes along, and sometimes that nerd is called a Andrew donis. Next, like, please.

the name not matching the is lord adonis to you.

seven.

seventy six, and surrender .

your town, please.

Think we need to ratify the titles and the ability .

amendment that .

we should further, we should be illegal to address someone by their title.

agreed. And I after recent events, I could not stand by that more vigorously. Fuck the lords. But so this guy might well be like whatever whatever the word for A V is, but for tony blair, he is that, however, is also massive rail nerd.

And as result, this he that two thousand and seven report came out and he basically said, okay, gordon Brown at that report is sick as the same year gorden Brown came into power. There's something about war, criminal and stuff with with tony blair making him becoming like electronic poison. Anyway, Brown's sends and he puts Andrea in a sector, Steve transport, a donis.

Not only says none of strategy, elevation of good idea, let's crack on with that, but also initiated development of this thing called high speed too, which flipped a previous flip kind of blares agnostic and towards doing anything to railways and something we're like an situation where, uh, we might finally, after this long period of a supposedly poseidon's demography, 呃， absolutely not. We're gona maybe do something about railways and undertake next line, please. Here we ended up with network are publishing this, this documents saying the case for new lines, which is kind of laid, that why we need a high speed to them. Happy days, lovely days. Oh, but we have to talk about the fact that things actually aren't still going so well.

So let's let's just go to the next lide again. So I just looking at the number of this report. The way the body is set up is appalling.

I mean, I presume that it's a tramline given how many and I just what you want essentially located and there's one every light fifty .

meters angers alternate position yeah .

so whichever ver graphic designer, whichever like late two thousand cgi guy and like brice three d was like setting this up presumedly didn't know anything about railways and which sadly, when IT comes to render right stuff, see also our high colly episode folks, is not something that is ever going to be fixed. Yes, I don't .

think so. I mean, they're gonna have A I doing it's so you .

know I have A I do that thing doesn't .

know anything about ways.

So next time please let's talk about national express east coast and version trains west coast because in two thousand nine national express east coast, having been awarded the franchise of these coast mainland, collapsed horribly. R I, P, to them in two thousand and twelve versions, trains west coast, or rather the west coast franchise. The building process was kind of scrapped by government because IT was found to be flawed and they were being threatened with judicial reviews in their right center. But we have to briefly talk about franchise reams.

So franchises were these sort of basically, you have an area of trains that were rut that company or or that would run under at a train Operating unit, that a company would come in and run as a franchise Operator, right? And these things were at the start, they were changing, has left, right and center all the time, so that the look was were changing as quickly as as people getting off the trains. IT was IT was kind of chaos.

This story on paint.

a lot of money on pain and even more money on lawyers. And that number only went up. We talk about line go up.

The lawyer line really went up. Orange spend on tracts. And ian lawsuit.

literally, yes. Because at the start, these were really the franchise. Rooms were like one binder, right? One, a four binder. And by the time of by the late two thousands, these things like filled up the back of a transit van, know these fact.

These agreements were thousands and thousands of pages and the money of that you have to spend for the lawyer to just read through the whole thing was I watching? Um so at this point, like the as a result is complexity. IT became difficile to actually run IT.

You know, the number of people in the number of companies interested in running trains massively diminished. So rose, you think about the faker of rAiling competition. Well, here, IT is in action, right? So the number of is reduced, the ambition of their bids increased so that they would win a chance of actually getting a bit.

And this is why we started seeing these collapses. So so like national express, restrict to the franchise after they failed to meet their payment targets. This isn't because passenger go of was in good, by the way.

It's just were saying that they were gna get this like crazy made up wizards levels of money, just never materials. Ed, so yeah, we're my wood. Well, exactly right. So so we have both both failure of one franchise, the failure of in person and uh, yeah, yeah, yeah so so the the fancy system was creepy at this point, and IT was only going to get worse. Let's jumps for the next.

Like to talk about something else that's going wrong because one of the things that british rail done was strip out all the fat of the system, made IT really efficient. And I said IT was twenty, running like one of the most efficient reilly systems in europe. The trouble when you then privatize that and tell the private companies to find more efficiency is that there aren't any any other than the big lever that says, fuck the fucker, real workers.

And so by two thousand and sixteen, that's in a very big way what was happening. And so we are seeing changes the way that to the responsibility E S. In the roles of staff, because the only leave left to these private train Operators was fucking around with staff, teas and seas or staffing levels.

And so in twenty sixteen we start seeing enormous levels of strike action, just a huge descartes, the left of strikes that were happening, kind of spearheaded by the rt, but actually asked, left there with them. You know, there were no leavers left to to minimize costs. And so this is in a way, this is really the only thing that the private train Operating companies existed to do, right? IT was to act as as a shield against public cry, and also as a way for government to say, well, it's not us fucking over the U. U. I. workers.

It's it's the private train up.

They look, look at american railroads and the obsession with the Operating ratio. And I saw that. And like, that's a good idea. We should .

have that here. Yes, so everyone will be glad. So we getting towards the climax of this story is not a good car. So next, please, sorry, i've got someone like, so yes, so next time we get so let's let's talk, I get about our roscoes, right?

So we already thought about the annoying things that rosco's really, but one of the other things that roscoes had incentivize was IT. Because why would you buy new trains? Was a freeze and trained human.

So we had very we kind of a trickle of new trains popping up. But in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, we had a record breaking to order for new trains, like an enormous order for trains and nowhere to actually build them. Question mark.

So now we have this decade wide gap in in kind of building trains. And so a lot of her a new trains are being built at the same time. Is this ah it's worth saying these two pictures here are, this is some four shadow. Least two pictures here are of mothballed trains on the left inside you can see here are a bunch of still kind of within their usable life classroom, one nine electric multiple units, and all stored at long last. And to have want to look at and put their head in the hands over these were supposed to end up in the north of england will explain why they didn't in a minute.

On the right hand side is um what were some of the brand new trends that started running on the transparent express network of which they ordered a three a set three different trains because the train manufactures didn't have the capacity to deliver all of one type of train. So and the end of that being a disaster to Operate. So these are also now being stored at long Martin for one to look at this, this kind of a universe predator are looking to fund side here.

They just replicated like the stupidest inefficiencies of british rail. But in the private .

market current.

we got to buy four, three different kinds of trains because the manufacturers don't have capacity.

Yeah, literally we're rediscovering what br had learned. Bad idea in the fifties is, isn't private enterprise wonderful?

Isn't very innovated.

yes. So next time, please, one of the chAllenges so that we've talked about trains, but one of the chAllenges there was a similar story from infrared fact that we other the project wasn't much going on infrastructure world. So we ended up here. We have this decade wide gap in skills on the infrastructure side, a particular when IT comes to elevation. And the consequence of that was suddenly we did.

We ended up kind of in the start to two thousand, what kind of from like two thousand and eight thousand, nine others, we started seeing a surgeon for such projects, and with a massive skills bottling combine with an industry structure that exacerbate sts by kind of maximum these into organization interfaces, then that we were delivering this infrastructure, and intellectual in particular, way too slowly and way too expensively. And so government cancelled eleven cation twenty seventeen woos. no.

The problem is, as we were approaching may twenty eighteen, we had what was gonna the biggest change to railway timetables in like a generation. This required a load of new trains. IT required a load of election fied railway and IT had a little tracks to bo O O.

And he also require a little trained staff. Next line please. The trouble is we didn't have any of those things. And so when we try to run a timetable without those trains or tracks or train staff and we ended up in a situation where um everything went to complete ration is so we have been made twenty eighteen time table meltdown, which people might remember.

And because none of the trains run, we ended up with a huge number of trained just not running being cancelled, you know hundreds of trains delay or cancelled after biggest time table change in decades, caused, causes chaos across the country. Thank you. The eye paper.

Well, that was what they called IT meltdown on the railways. And and you know, the time table meltdown is kind of what I ended up being called. And IT IT genuinely catastrophic, like enormous dropping performance. And and at this point, let's just jump forward to to twenty just a little bit later, like a couple of months later just to really .

piss on everyones you could get for one at .

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on on that day, the .

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on that day.

Yeah sale not to be extended. Yeah next likely because I talk about paints, paint job being changed on trains. Well, here is, here is an, actually is A T, V, T. Here's the other end of an.

Two two, five having the virgin a los applied to IT uh sadly though, virgin trains east coast was not to be because once again theyd overpromised and virgin tines caused collapsed in july twenty eighteen just after the time time of collapsed. IT was kind of a bad year for the properties rail network at this point. So you, with the franchise system already struggling, you know, with this lack of bitters, know no one really wants to get involved. IT was more troubled than IT was worth. This whole thing with version trains is because going over the whole thing just fell over that was IT was quite clear that franchise the system was done IT was doomed and everyone's favorite for not a few years.

No ah I was good. Yeah well.

forcing IT continue IT continues to shufu onto this day in a round about way, but will get there. And only a couple of slides know. So Chris grilling, who some people might remember as being a very annoying transport secretary, but by far not the worst, given that we had mark harper until the last year election initiate to think, called the Williams review next, please, I did.

which was support. One thing I reminded of here is just, you know, look like virgin trains was doing so well for so long, right, that I think they were actively in talks with the books, the bush administration, to start running virgin trains on the .

northeast corner, really, they what they've y've like branded on bright line for a bit.

and then decided not the me origin trains USA. And then and and this kind of happened.

and then I think they decided not to.

yeah want to touch a train ever again.

Because the virgin, a lot people got really upset when virgin, because that when this one that was the end of virgin running on the rail network, know what a shame a lot of people who are like genuinely upset for IT. Virgin is such a nineties brand like everything about IT from like Richard branson wearing a dress like offends like cross dressing offensively to like, just like to like like all the like happy cluppy stuff and the tongue, all of IT so ninety coded in the way that just has no age that, well, I don't know. Nowhere you might have different view on this, but like I version IT just feels IT. Even then, like even in the kind of the mid two thousand tens, IT felt really outdated in a way that I remember virgin feeling kind of cool when I was getting on the first pad I did when I was dinner. Like thirty.

I I think this is most acute with a the airline, but like Richard branson, like picking up and like princess Carrying flight attendants, like painting a kind of pin up on the nose of the plane. Yes, IT was all stuff in high. This wasn't cool at all and in fact was like deeply .

SaaS a more sex positive railroad you need like the sex worker train.

Ah well, yeah, well, thank you. We didn't a virgin to deal. They did start doing the pride stuff. That being, we did start getting gay trains at this point, which I I don't know that we can credit that with problems.

But I have done a gay train had they survived into .

the cause. Others great. So too many gay .

people working in and railways for IT not to be like an inevitability. I feel.

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. exactly. So next time, please, where is real review? I said this went, this went rapidly to shit. I all, dear, well, IT was provinces ation. IT was going to be messy.

Wasn't this was the thing that was going to look at h, how we gonna the railway system still work, and that was that was said about entering in the aftermath of all of this kind of shit kind of hit in the fan and and this was kind of ongoing. And people were like, all this is taking a little time to take a bit time. But okay, I i'm sure i'm sure this guy is is going to get IT right. And then next lide please happened, oh, oh yes. So the first .

thing I dcaa every .

so this came along and I decided to, like hill, to hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, and millions of millions and millions of people crossed the love. I mean, we still have five percent greater access test. And before the pandemic, right? And the W H O of my is over.

But if you look at water waste, water traces like the U. S, in the U. K. Right now, we are very much still not through this. This is just part of our life now.

but we failed the pandemic later. It's so it's just endemic now.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Fail that one.

IT is over in the sense that we got the bad ending.

Truly, this is america's vietnam.

And vietnam.

vietnam as good yeah .

so next lide please because this had effects on our railway system, namely no one was on IT. Uh this is a trace of uh like the railway railway usage as a percentage of precoe levels. So the the top line is cars and taxis in red, the the middle line is bus services outside of london, and the bottom line is national real services.

And you can see that everything dropped to five percent of recovered levels. And IT took a bit of time for us to get back to where we actually with the mental hinseth, that the curve is quite a nice fit actually, from when IT drop to the bottom to kind of coming up to the two hundred percent again, that we are back up, by the way. And I I know I like to share this every time and anywhere you're remark for we are back and the the above one hundred percent roaders ship on the G.

B. Rail network. So don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. Patterns what I ve changed a bit, but we are right back out there again.

But he took a good this is immediately obvious to you if you are trying to squeak into the one time leaving from.

and yeah, yeah, you, you and you and thirty two hundred of your best friends.

yeah, yeah. So a marking is one. A, the cover of three, five percent of print of a kind of readership and the issues put on life support.

All franchise by the end of march were transformed for on to emergency concessions. And that was IT that the end of the franchise system, IT was gone. Hills stone dead.

one of the only like welcome casualties of the .

nineteen absolutely yes.

And these things in hospital on ECMO and i'm busy trying to like kick the shit out of IT.

You know the only branding .

everything in like these you know different ways like okay, now we have Allen E R. Back, right?

yeah. And then this can start now. We talked about this. I remember you and I talked about this on other other media platforms about like this, this branding of of of these trains kind of popping up.

But that was actually a bit of a fat of of the department for transport, even before they start happening. They start going, what if return with A V but anyway, so so we have the Williams review. Finally, we get the response to that with all this chaos kicking off. And next time, please, we finally get the Williams checks plan for rail, which sounds like a kind of a prob rock band, right as the outcome of the Williams railway. And they say we're going to have great .

british railways that can be the age of village .

Green are on the G W R. To .

seven fee again. So so we'd had three years to get to the point of this thing being published. And then we continue to do nothing for another three years and other than erode all the stuff that had been going properly, for example.

Next line, please. I speak to a the only strategy of you we've done this to death on on the park before. I'm not going to do again.

But yeah so soon as one of the last thing he did was kh s two. And so we really had wrecked up that. So so the franchise system is dead, but nothing had come to replace IT.

So the industry was in a horrifying, arguably worse than things had been, limbo. And we just lost our main strategic plan for the future, great success with long term decisions for a bridge of future. Thank you. How guys?

Thanks for you. Forgot how to run trains?

yes. We've forgot how to run train. yes. So is there hope though? So next line placed, is there some hope that's worth saying at this point that the the privatize rail system, as IT existed before, is pretty much entirely dead?

The only part of IT that's been that survived because like successive, like sexual of state and ministers of throw bodies in front of the bullets to protect IT are the roscoes. The roscoes continue to this. And indeed, here is the the preelection labor party publishing their getting britain moving plan, which is based there.

There are things saying we're going to just do what the Williams planned said and but with more like flag shaking stuff on IT and you know that a long time labor and say we're going to get britain ving again. We're going to do everything they said, but obviously are going to leave the ruling to Operate in companies exactly as they are. We cannot get in the way of the money that is made from that hugely extractive part of the industry.

So this is pride that we train landlords in providers there. No train providers who will provide the trains exactly?

Where do the trains come from if you don't have the train landlords? Exactly right? IT does is not possible. So next time, please, because we have all of the sun and election, of which there are only two interesting and useful things to notice.

The first is that the party of adult human females, and whatever Price party women did real shit, we should really just pay attention that enjoy. They did really bad, really, really bad. That's worth paying very close attention to, entertained by.

The other thing to be, to pay close attention, to be entertained by as that, uh, labor got had got fewer votes in twenty twenty four. Then they go under corbon twenty. Just a nice .

little thing. The love less, less landslide last. Yeah.

this is IT. So, anyway, so we like to move on from that stupid general election. The third stormer rises.

Key is here and and we have appointed fun enough on the day of, yeah good h man, I welcome more handy next next life please and fun enough on the day that I received a letter from my employer tells that i'm sacked the the transport team is disappointed, including a lord handy of Richard d. Hill being appointed is a live player. He becomes a labor live player. The time is.

I can't, I can't believe soon x government would do this.

Well, this, this is labor. Now, of course.

this this is a sti season in in tfl having you know him having been no underland so like you know, very flexible man, I understand .

flexible man or was good at getting dirt on people although by the way, that you .

can do to him.

that's yes that's not much to go on your C V, yeah. I will put in a word for the Youngest member of the of the of the cabinet, which take to, I do still stand by actually being a good sector step transport. I think she's actually good.

He cares a lot about buses, which is genuinely important. And and I think she's good. I think she's surrendered by load of toddy, men of which are boring, useless men who think they're Better than he is.

You know, what brings me joy is the after all of the handy shit went public at Louis, hag will have had him in a room, in a meeting without biscuits or coffee, and we will have got to dress that prick down and good grief, and by which I mean a british, as I mean shouted at him and the idea is hate, who was Young as a funny colour hair, shouting at this nato al establish montaria git brings me immense, immense joy, immense joy. And anyway, so vapouring for their bill right in the week that I go live with talent, that their rail ministers, a crut piece of shit, and they come forward. The passenger railway services public gets public otherness.

Bill, yeah. Is another bill, another change. But this time it's to basically bring all the already collapsed franchise kind of water and our concessions into public otherness as their contracts expire, which is poor, pretty revolutionary stuff.

Their folks while a and so at meanwhile, nothing has been fixed still, haters, labor have shown no signs of doing anything on IT. There is no ruling program. Electricity, real accessibility is little Better now that IT was in one thousand nine hundred ninety three.

Capacity is deliberately being constrained once again, by increasing ticket Prices. Everything's a mess. And next lide, please.

H actually so as to next lide, please, please. Yeah, there's the bill there that I should have about it's not interesting. The bill and it's finished because it's as brought from the commons. So this is the version, the road talking to which next time, please. Cause yeah, this guy is in charge of deciding what the structure of the real instincts is gonna and given information news is, is this a good thing? I I don't know if this is a good thing.

Probably not.

Yeah, i'm going to go with, possibly not. Yeah, is a handy. I refuse to learn anything you want. The brit, this, this is a handy. Yes, i'm going to call the .

hand a name tag.

He was valid first. I am like to step into my home and I can say stuff, which is i'm going at a set mother fucker i'm not done at so yeah so that is the story of a kind of, i'm afraid there is not unhappy ending to this one is just is there some hope with with the national the very, very vigorously rabbit reared aliza?

Not a world.

Yeah.

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, everyone, sorry. That one is a step in the right direction that we're doing the right light, that we bring the franchise back in house.

But it's so much they're gonna. You just know that this government going to do in the worst possible way. You just know that.

And that makes me very angry. And you should buy my book about IT. Next light, please. Yeah.

I was going to that after safety third.

Oh, SHE is a safety third. Yes, please. I have missed safety third. Let's do a safety third. Yes, we need cheering up by hearing someone get harbor named by good as to safety was the god one news, not a safety third. So on safety first.

third, we've said the broadcast all.

And safety third .

means a guy you want to know.

hello, birds.

angles. Oh.

I just realize what this is. I don't like immediately, don't like this because heavy thing, moving thing, feet.

I see chain fires on youtube. And that's no, you drop the anchor like of out of control. The fraction on thing ignites to something whole using catch is fine.

Looks like a IT. Looks like a jet engine going. Doesn't IT. It's crazy. Yeah, no good. Don't like that.

S i've been a fan of the pod around seven months now.

addressed me by my rank.

Would like to share an experience for my time in the merchant navy of this god for second island in the north atlantic.

I hope this is .

your strange ous standards for safety. Third.

yeah, that's this .

story takes place around two years ago. For context, I had just dropped down of a university asia physics and astronomy course and applied for the merchant navy. I ve since learned what a terrible decision this was.

There's a phrase that sticks with me because somebody was asking about joining the military at age thirty eight. And one of the replies was, you'll never too old to make the worst mistake of your life. And I think about that. That changed my entire world view.

For those unfamiliar, the merchant navy officer training course in the U. K. That requires eighteen months of study on land to and twelve months of Operation on ships, followed by a final spoke, an exam I can do IT a .

city of losses w college. And believe me, I thought about IT when I was considering making the worst mistake of my life.

From the start, the ship had me questioning my life decisions. I was given a lift to the port by a safety inspector or took no time at all, and describing the numerous accident that had taken place aboard over the past three months.

These included .

a cook that had been accidentally stabbed, an engineer that lost a hand to a fan, a second cook that fell down the stairs and was buried alive by frozen fish.

This is award gory .

sort of deal. He is a hard shit.

A fire on the fuel tank manifold, large oil spill on the cargo deck, which was unrelated, and approach with fifty tones of these loyal, but mysteriously vanished because of a missile loading valve. Just me. The actual oil spill figures are always way under reported. I would like to repeat that this all happened over period of three months.

Oh my god.

I joined the ship against my Better judgment and encountered the approximately eighteen people managing the seventy seven thousand one tanker. One such, one such person was an older man. We shall call josh. He was the boss.

Is that because that's what his name was?

But yes, apparently he was the posting and was uncomfortable ly friendly for me as a fairly Young trans girl that was trapped in a medium size apartment with them .

for several months. This is, this is hitting close to home.

I had been on the ship for about two months, and we just arrived in greece as there was no space import just yet. The captain decided to drop anchor and wait for a birth to open. Josh was put in charge of the deck side, and I was supposed to watch and learn.

Now the Normal procedure for anchoring is to conduct several breakin winch tests to open the geet teen, which is a big metal bar, holds the anchor chain when you're in the open sea, which is labelled here as a riding. Check out this, this guy here, gently lower the anchor to the waterline. Conduct several more break and winch tests to confirm everything was okay. And then finally let go the anchor controlling IT carefully with the brakes. Now.

as you can ably see.

IT for .

shadowing on this one. No, my good.

As you can proba guess, this was not followed in the slightest for reasons of its slow. So what actually happened was open, getting disconnect, both the winch and break in quick succession. Let the anchor free fall .

and lean .

over the bow and estimate when to reapplied the break. Or at least I think that's hard when the josh is said, because nothing happened, the anchor and chain were trapped by some tangle in the system somewhere, and they didn't move an inch. You think this would be a sign to backtrack and do things properly.

but not for job and never is.

Josh walked right up to this person sized chain, stuck his leg deep in the hot, the house type .

house by no, josh, that's just yes.

and started kicking.

H, no.

How much do you leg? How touch do you like? Would you like to be in future? Like to you?

I think it's pretty obvious.

but some of the ways that this could kill you include, but I are not living IT to being off your leg, getting yourself crushed by a shift in the chain or being sucked through the hospital while I can torch you into whatever shape is so desires, and then drags you screaming to the sauli depth.

getting getting the kind of black hole like showed radius experience on, I would .

at least use a stick for this.

getting getting by for dolphin. And .

one .

year.

turing your food for fencing believe this is a prime opportunity to use a stick. I stood there in shock until there was allowed clunk, in a defining role in the anchor chain, started flying out in the cloud of rest flakes and mud dust. This was enough to shock me in the sprinting over and applying brakes fast, as I could in the gentleman field aid. I was convinced I was going to be radioing the bridge with something along the lines of, oh god, it's everywhere.

No god .

broken, losing his boot, part of his jump sit at a few toes.

He got air lifted to .

a hospital and I didn't have to deal with them. Staring him made the entire trip home. I already decided in that moment that I was not getting on another ship, and I was going to go back to my pretty stars and telescopes too fucking.

And right now, god bless.

was the lesson learned here. I don't really think so. What is not my problem anymore?

Don't like what's going on my head.

I've never respected a merger navy officer more than this. Yeah, just get the fuck out as as quickly as possible.

Oh nice. Okay, a happy ending. I went off for the rest crew .

and hopefully only one year from getting my um masters and science and astrophysics and I genuinely have no idea what possess me to leave. Love your podcast. I would absolutely go to a live show if I could.

No, november. And devin, I came to see you in london for your charity's Angel show and had a great time. I even got a signed poster, but I was super shy. I wanted to see the more recent one, but I just don't have the time or money right now. Keep up the awesome work best from Rebecca.

Thank you so much. What time? I mean, make the live shows because like I was signing stuff and I was like I could person on wednesday is quite easily like, um yeah um never is .

a weird .

guy mame himself yeah .

no like, exactly that's that's what and right I will write that. I will sign that there's very little .

I want sign and .

this very n as far as life shows go, all I can say is that I am i'm talking to the lawyers right now about U. S. Faces and will see .

what oh, that that's very, very exciting. All did you do the ideas to?

Should there?

Yes, yeah, yeah.

That was safety. third. Our next episode will be on your noble but of course, we do have commercials before we go. Garret, talk about your book.

Yeah, I actually have a commercial, which is that I wrote this book and and what I did was leave IT in a greg in w station today when I advanced copy that I was getting all tati and that got like stickers and my scribes and IT so to harle from the raining, our discord server. Hope you enjoy the copy that you picked up when I told everyone the server that if anyone is in darby to .

get towards the Davis station. Greg.

yeah, but I enjoyed my source of been and cheese melt. So it's all good. But I know I have a book. It's called how the rail is will fix the future and it's this plant.

I mean, it's just so much in everyone here will have partly deliberate, but balls, partly because it's things I love writing about. But the point of IT is saying the left and people want to actually survive the future, have kind of follow IT apart of muscle. Us nerds thought you watch to the left, or just like forgotten about railways, or don't think about railways, or somehow feel that the railways are evil or whatever.

You know, we seen this. The h has two shit in the Green party, changing stand the way. And this book is kind of trying to reminders, no, the railways aren't just like you.

They have a bad history. They have been used for for ill. They are useless to run lots of ways. But actually they, no, they are their fundamental stick, and they are the way that we build a Better future. It's not just that they are one of a serious of tools.

My view is that they are the e tool that will give us the future that we need, will give us us a Better future. So kind of all the books about and this yeah, it's lots of fun, optimistic stuff. I slack g off plenty people in there.

There's there's lots of fun stuff about hyper loop and about gadget bans. And thanks for us, by the way, because you're your early loop video is definitely something sprache. If W T I P has mentioned the book, you know, rose.

you get a little coin there. Don't applying .

exactly. And yeah, so these are available for president now from all reputable locations, and also some different ones. There are evil.

You can get this from your local thieves.

Gold IT is available at your local, greg.

very likely. Well, i've realized this is quite a viral marketing campaign. So my box, my sadly rapidly diminishing box of advances clear I need to to distribute them around the very right um uh, watch this space.

No, I had a lot of fun, right reading IT. I didn't have a lot fun writing IT because having a very badly sleeping little baby and trying to write a booking about three weeks is really hard work. But no, i'm actually quite pleat with how to come out.

I'm very proud of IT and it's going to be really weird to have people reading my book that's going to be a very strange experience. I'm just a paid at stealing concrete guys so this whole experience very weird to me but thanks everyone and you you lovely lot that talking to me right now as in lean ros november. Thanks so much for being power and being so support of me as as somebody comes on hog those watching, I love you as well.

You're all great. And it's it's like coming to having a chat if that is not like IT is you are my friends is like having a chat with friends. I am having a chat with friends on here, say how why do do you say that? Like IT the and harassed .

that was was .

enraging. I was very in. But no, the, I love this, the cast, yeah, i'm going to stop being sobbed.

But I know this. This be fun, hopefully in our episode. And it's two hours forty nine. Oh my god, devine, I am so sorry.

We got, we got to make up some time because we .

had some episodes we had to describe .

recently and to the fox needs .

some slow, yeah, stop.

But yeah, no.

Thank you so much for coming on. IT is always at a light. It's was a pleasure.

sure. And yeah, I I always learned a lot. I was enjoyed that.

We did protez ation. But this is the city. We solve .

the problem. Everyone.

this case, we did .

this with under three hours as and so good.

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