Well, with railway network there is naturally no compettion because it's too expensive to run 2 competing railways on the same route. So, the competition is only from buses and airplains. You can argue that 2 railway companies can run trains in the same direction on the same rails and compete in this way... but this introduces schedulling problems. If a train gets delayed because it's stuck somewhere all following trains are likely delayed too
It's back to that old theme isn't it? "Bob Crowe needs a bullet in the head" I would much rather he was on some publicly funded jaunt in the far east redistributing the wealth to prostitutes. At least the damage he does there is limited. The man's a modern day wrecking ball. No doubt he prays to King Arthur (Scargill) every night.
Some trade union leaders are good at establishing political ties (think John Precott); some are less so.