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Visit the News: The privatisation of British Rail had nothing to do with trying to make trains better
The privatisation of the railways had nothing to do with trying to make them better. It was driven by the ideological fervour of a few Tory MPs, before attracting the support of the privatisation unit in the Treasury led by Steve Robson (later Sir Steve), who loathed British Rail with a passion and later was a non-executive director of RBS during its worst excesses.
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