Mind the closing doors - echoes of Thatcher in railway battle
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Rona Jeff loved her job as a PR consultant for an education charity in central London. "It became untenable to try to go to work," said Jeff, whose journey into London from Brighton on England's south coast should have taken just over an hour, but was regularly taking 4 1/2 hours because of cancellations, slow-downs and strikes. Finally, the stress was wrecking her sleep: "It got to the point where I was ill." Southern Rail, one of more than a dozen privatise
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