VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1362479317|CONTENT|&#039;Tis true (the bit about trains, that is).  [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GBR_rail_passenegers_by_year.gif]The number of rail journeys[/url] is back up to levels not seen since the 1920s, close to the maximum ever. You could argue that there has been a 50% increase in population since then, but even so - rail is back!

The graph is interesting. The start of the comeback seems very closely correlated with a huge point of transition in the way rail was done. After many years of overseeing a steady decline, when the whole thing was run by large, unchanging, monolithic organisations, a massive shake-up occurred. New ideas were allowed in. The old certainties were scrapped, thrown into the waste bin of history. The smug security of the vested interests was cast aside, in favour of a flexible, accomodating system that didn&#039;t try to tell its users what they wanted. The old ways, all the old rules, being demonstrably the ones that had caused the decline in the first place, were replaced en bloc. The dinosaurs were out of a job.

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