The rail industry should be proud of its efforts

Let’s face it, it’s an easy target. If a Martian beamed down to Earth and read our newspapers and listened to some of politicians, they would probably return home thinking that the UK had a third world railway. Sadly it’s just not the case, and it was a theme recently taken up by former transport minister Tom Harris on his blog recently.

Harris writes that political acquaintances often remark that the railways could be sorted out by renationalising them. “It’s...