@bjoernstaerk @researchfairy in Portugal our passenger train company which is now a EPE (public but under the same law as private) and has only degraded service further. This started before the private management with profit seeking politicians. For instance most lines and stations in the interior are there, but have been closed or underserved starting since the early 1990s. Nowadays even main lines are underserved and we don't even have a high speed connection to the rest of Europe.