Tom Barry wrote:

> Paul Corfield wrote:
>
> >
> > Wouldn't it be a complete scream if TfL owned Metronet and private Tube
> > Lines put in bids!?
> >
>
> And Network Rail?  All three more-or-less creations of Gordon Brown
> (given that NR was largely set up by his Treasury cronies).
>

Yes, but so what? You can just as well say that Railtrack was a
creation of the Treasury - indeed, you could consider London
Overground a creation of the Treasury, in that if they hadn't of
agreed to it then it wouldn't have happened. One could go further and
say that the rail maintenance businesses of Balfour Beatty and co are
the result of the Treasury driven privatisation of BR.