[badcppdev]

People literally died before it became Network Rail due to badly maintained infrastructure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southall_rail_crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash

Edit: To be 100% clear the badly maintained infrastructure was the responsibility of a for profit private company at the point where people died.

[veltas]

Southall:

> The passenger train operating company had failed to inform Railtrack and the signaller that the automatic warning system (AWS), which warns drivers of adverse signals, had been turned off in the cab of the HST.

But Ladbroke Grove was Railtrack's fault entirely (within the first few years of its creation). Meanwhile it's been 20 years since National Rail was created, when do we get to blame current governments and National Rail for bad infrastructure?