"Old Enough To Remember British Rail"

Aren't we all? Rail privatisation did not even begin until 1994, and it was not completed until 1997. 

You do not have to be the 62-year-old Richard Madeley on Question Time, or the 71-year-old Edwina Currie on Any Questions?, in order to remember better days.

That increasingly unchallenged suggestion needs to be well and truly shunted into the sidings.