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If you'll beg my pardon, it just seems to me (and feel free to correct me if I am wrong) that you Brits made things much more complex than need be, e.g. the initial breakup of BR into 100 or so entities.  Wouldn't things have been a lot more simplified if you had either reverted back to the original four integrated private rail operators e.g pre-nationalization, or (in compliance with the EU directive) at least kept the entire infrastructure under public control and just let out the train operations to private entities in true open access mode?  [quote user="owlsroost"]    The operators don't have to bid for a TAA - the TAA gives you the right to access the tracks in return for payment to Network Rail, but getting paths on a particular route is a separate (no payment) bidding process managed by Network Rail. It's overseen by the Office of Rail Regulation, to which an operator can appeal if it thinks it's not being fairly treated in the process. [/quote] So is the process of obtaining paths done by lottery, or does the ORR use a subjective analysis to determine who gets what?
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