Decades of underinvestment and a series of crashes have dogged the network, which has halved in size since 1950.
But in the past decade there has been a steady rise in passengers with which the network has struggled to cope.
Punctuality has improved but is not what it was before the 2000 Hatfield crash while fares continue to rise.
The government has announced plans to take back more control and streamline the complicated railway structure, but stopped short of re-nationalisation.
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