Should the railways be nationalised? Vox pop in Sheffield city centre on Labour's pledge to take the network back into public ownership.
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00:00We went from British Rail because there were problems with British Rail so we have to overcome
00:04those old problems before we look at the new ones. What are your memories? Memories of British Rail,
00:09smoke, chug chug, yeah beautiful trains. The problems? Problems, I don't really know,
00:20I didn't use the train very much, I lived in the backwoods. Were there a lot of strikes,
00:26do you remember? I can't really remember, I mean nothing like we have today.
00:32There must have been strikes, I'm guessing. Can you remember? No, nothing like we have now.
00:39You could at least rely on a train I think. I think the perception now is you cannot rely
00:46on British Rail or anywhere kind of rail. They've lost faith, that's what they do.
00:52Well we have a friend visiting from Dorset and she's travelling back from Preston
01:00on the day there's going to be strikes. We think she's travelling.
01:05You know it's, I just think it's atrocious. Even now when you're planning a trip to London
01:13you think will there be a strike and a couple of times we've gone down on National Express.
01:19Yeah, there's no trains. If they could run the rail complex the way the Supertram runs,
01:31they'd be fine. A lot of cancellations, a bit unreliable trains at the minute aren't they?
01:37Very unreliable, yeah. What's your memory of British Rail?
01:42Er, a lot more convenient then than they are now with strikes obviously and things.