Originally Posted by SJ_Skyline

Earth to Les,

Did you actually commute in the 60s or 70s? BR's service was truly appalling with random wildcat strikes, trains cancelled for no reason and overcrowding on a level akin to battery farming.

On the plus side, we could at least leap from the moving train as it drew into the platform.

Privatisation has resulted in higher fares but the level of service has been greatly improved. There's no need to see the years of nationalisation through rose-tinted spectacles, it was an awful, union-dominated time which I have no wish to return to.