The Norwegian rail privatisation is going great.

(NRK article on how GoAhead Nordic took over maintenance of their trains, can't keep them operational and now spends an insane amount of money on rail replacement service. In Norwegian)

https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/xl/skrekktall-for-go-ahead-pa-sorlandsbanen_-600-innstilte-tog-sa-langt-i-ar-1.17854585

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NRK
@timstrutzi It's always the same. Private companies can't make enough money at maintaining trains/tracks except by providing shit levels of maintenance. And so passenger numbers drop and eventually someone says "we need to close these lines", but in the meantime the taxpayer has been forced to funnel billions into the pockets of these corporate arseholes *while simultaneously getting no service*.