On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways    by Christian Wolmar
Price: $9.00 USD. 149390 words. Published by KemsingPublishing on August 23, 2012. .
Britain's rail privatisation was one of the greatest political failures of recent history. This acclaimed book serves as a valuable reminder of the risks of privatising a single, state-owned service and breaking it up into competing entities, linked by contracts instead of a shared service ethos... mistakes the Coalition Government now seems determined to repeat with the National Health Service