Deepgreen
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I almost posted the same thing, but my dictionary also states that the accepted modern usage means to reduce or damage greatly.To be boringly pedantic, decimation is actually reducing by one tenth (the Roman practice of killing every tenth soldier to encourage the others).
Of course it isn't used that way now
Indeed but, I wonder, was that situation taken into account with maintenance plans? Or was the inevitable failure escalation just accepted as inevitable and to be 'lived with'?Yesterday Network Rail confirmed exactly the points that Bald Rick states.
Compared with 2018-19 there are now 17% more trains on this stretch of track, 14% more station stops and 38% more tonnage.