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I have been going to Great Britain 5-6 times per year for the last 26 years so I have a little knowledge of their system. The Brits travel by train very often. Yes, there is a lot of OLD equipment on the rails, but it is disappearing rapidly. Part of the privatization of passenger service was to clean up the equipment and this cannot be done over night. Very few of the coaches with a door from each seat set remain although they were a great way to unload a commuter train quickly. The Gatwick and Heathrow express trains are new and state of the art. The Brits use their trains! For example, Reading, which is 35 miles west of Paddington station there are 329 trains a day through the station. Reading has a population of 250,000. Houston, with a population of about 2 million has TWO trains per day. What is wrong with this picture? <br /> <br />I have taken many train trips when I have some free time. The best was the pirates and bear trip. Left Paddington station of Paddington Bear fame (A A Milne's childrens books) and went to Penzance of pirate fame from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Part of the line is along the Cornwall coast which is quite scenic. The interesting part was west of Plymouth where every city had an interlocking tower that manually controlled the signals and turnouts. You could see 10-15 armstrong levers through the window. Took you back 100 years in time. No, I did not find and bears or pirates. <br /> <br />*** Watkins
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