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At the National Rail Museum at York, you can read about how a successful if underfunded railway network was broken up and sold off to profiteers in the 80s. You can't help feeling bitter surrounded by some of the greatest trains ever built. So we welcome without reservation Branson's bid to operate the East Coast mainline (which presumably means we won't get a seat). It would mean Virgin pretty much re-creating the old InterCity network, and we believe him when he says there's no money to be made: he'd be doing it as a public service. Perhaps he even plans to cross-subsidise with the space tourism project.