Other railways before 1914
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Before 1914 Edwin A Pratt wrote a couple of books (The case against railway nationalisation and Railways and nationalistion) which are very similar in which he compared Britains then-private railways with the nationalised railways in other countries.
He found that the nationalised railways experienced:
- more strikes
- losses
- worse service
He also found that nationalisation rarely achieved its aims - largely because it had so many.
There was even the example of Australia's nationalised railways which had succeeded in establishing a system with three different track gauges.
