>>1638354This is hard to know because something had to be done anyways. BR was completely incompetent, and before Thatcher, unions used the country as their toy.
Either would happen better modernization, including complete containerization, actually high speed lines, and full electrification, way earlier privatization (big 4 pt.2 steam boogaloo) or just let everything rust and turn them into highways, because """trains failed""".
