[skohan]

> Effectively, the UK let (mainly by omission, not intentionally) the solutions compete and then selected the most broadly used solution to standardise on.

We're down to two connectors here, one of which is only used by a single vendor; do you think that hasn't already happened?

[rmccue]

I’m not questioning that at all! I’m only responding to the question posed by the parent about railway standardisation in the context of industrialisation.