John Disney of Nottingham Trent university says Network Rail is still attempting to undo the legacy of Railtrack.
Collin Garbarino, assistant professor of history at Houston Baptist University, acknowledges that if he were to press his point of view of the film, which is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Snow Queen, his faculty colleagues "might run me out of the university on a rail".
But for many, coaches will forever be associated with primary school trips to Sutton Hoo, smuggling porno playing cards and bangers back from GCSE excursions to Bologne, stink-headed journeys back from university towns and rail replacement bus services.
Instead of shrinking the state, services – the NHS, rail, universities, libraries, swimming pools and museums – all need to expand to meet demand.
Yet he has detailed plans for his people's betterment, from universities to high-speed rail, and he's delivering on them.
Clementi went to the campus food court, bought a burger, and, at about six-thirty, took the university shuttle bus to the rail station, where he took a train to New York, then a subway uptown.
"On the day that the cost of living crisis has again been highlighted by the leap in rail fares, the university bosses are lining their own substantial pockets, while those staff that keep Britain in the top 10 world university league table struggle to make ends meet".
She took my arm, and I guided her up the street to a coffee shop a few blocks away where she railed against the university plan.
Another training exercise involved soldiers sitting in a Maurice Farman fuselage which was attached to rails at the university's Wantage Hall tower.
More than £10,000 was spent on 112 first-class rail journeys, despite a university policy encouraging standard-class travel, while other claims included £2,513 for a business class flight and £1,494 for "equipment".
BBC Inside Out asked Dr Martin Cox from Coventry University to test random samples from rail tracks for analysis.
