there was a job going at the lner savings bank, so i applied for it and got it.ice a real difference in the way things had run? pre—nationalisation and post—nationalisation once everything became british rail? it did not seem the same. it wasn't the family atmosphere. even within a nostalgic perspective, would anyone want to turn the clock back to the times when british rail was known forjokes about its sandwiches? no. we can't go back to the 1970s, and i don't think we would want to. i think we need to learn the lessons from the past and make something fit for the modern time. british rail was underinvested in. where does the money come from? we don't have to buy back the tracks, we already have network rail. the rolling stock would be pretty expensive? that is leased, the trains are owned by private companies, the government can buy trains directly and that will be much more efficient. right now railways are a blame game, everyone can blame everyone else. the dft, the train companies, the rolling stock companies, actually if you run the system as one integrated