The RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "This report throws up yet more evidence that two decades of privatisation, fragmentation and underinvestment in Britain's railways have left passengers angry and frustrated as they see the hard cash they spend on extortionate fares drained away in profits to the train operating companies.
Manuel Cortes, leader of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, said commuters were "paying record high fares for a worsening service", while the Rail Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash said the survey was "more evidence that two decades of privatisation, fragmentation and under-investment on Britain's railways have left passengers angry and frustrated".
The railway has left a trail of buried bodies – deceased workers who will be repatriated back to China, "each foot and hand bagged in its own pouch and nestled in a box among other bones".
Yet on October 7th, after a year of disruption on the railways that has left the stiffest of upper lips trembling with fury, the government announced that Railtrack, the privatised owner of Britain's railway infrastructure, was going bankrupt.
An attack by knife-wielding men at a railway station in Kunming in south-west China has left at least 29 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says.
It has left Abkhazia's economy highly dependent on Russia, which maintains a border crossing and railway line to Sukhumi.
And Exhibit A in the case against zealous unbundling is Britain, where a review last year found costs were over 40% greater than for continental railways, because privatisation had left the system so fragmented.
There are now 5,000 men out on the Great Southern Railway, but the men who have left work on other railways do not number 1,000.
My worst ever outdoors experience (worse than getting chased by heifers or stranded on cliff ledges) was the realisation, as I scoffed waffles and cream on Oslo railway station, that I had left my notebook jammed with impressions of the Norwegian countryside on the sleeper.
Pennant, whose escapades have included a drink-driving conviction and forgetting he owned a Porsche that he had left at a railway station for five months while at Real Zaragoza, came on as a late substitute to curl home a free kick, his first goal since May 2011 and the first West Ham had conceded this season.
