UK has a problem with rails since Thatcher (IIRC).I
PS: stop insulting people. Thank you.
Yeah thatcher caused issue when ahe privatized rail operators. She didn’t privatize network rail though, which are the guys responsible for building and maintaining the track including electrification projects. So I don’t think you can pin this one on her. Electrification is prohibitively expensive and incomplete in pretty much every country with older rail networks including the USA, UK, and parts of the EU.
Also if you don’t want to get insulted maybe stop assuming where I live and what I know about. It’s insulting when people go “In Europe we do x”, like brah I live in Europe and I know about x. X isn’t always the solution to every problem. This is becoming a hammer nail thing.
If the transport companies don’t require electric vehicles the infrastructure company won’t builds it. I don’t say that’s the case but it could be. If everybody has only a bicycle you don’t spend money on a highway.
That makes no sense. The government owns the railway, not the companies. They are the ones struggling to put in electric lines.
Also battery electric trains are a big step up from diesel. I don’t get why you are complaining.
