According to Conservative Home, the Conservatives, or David Cameron as they’re now known, are thinking about reorganising the railways so that companies run both track and trains, which I believe is how the Japanese do these things. Apparently this would be more efficient and require less subsidy
. Hurray.
The article also seems to suggest that a Review of the rail network by the Conservative Party is in the offing. I’m not sure how this squares with the quite definite plans outlined above. Maybe the review will be like an undergraduate essay with all the formalities of research and reading done after the essay has been largely written.