Yes, I sometimes almost feel empathy for the poor doctor, that the Chairman of Austerity Britain was little more than a political puppet, who had to salvage the nation's crippled and cracked railway system, before it collapsed completely.
I guess we have the vastly over-optimistic and competitive early Victorian era railway promoters to thank, for starting the whole darn messy thing in the first place.
Maybe that's it! I would go back in time - accompanied by an accountant - and I would ask each and every one of those promoters: "No, really, tell me -how exactly WILL this great fancy railway-line of yours actually pay for itself?"
