This thread highlights the madness in railways in UK. 70 years since nationalisation yet we build new stations with no passive provision to extend and built to be just big enough from the word go, dozens of different types of train, units going off lease before replacements are ready, apparently similar trains incompatible with each other and, what is worse, the railways seemingly powerless to change it and actually content that it is unavoidable. We can't even settle on a standard platform height.