What's really happening is electricity can't be produced at the price it is being sold for. Private companies can do it for a short while with government assistance but not forever. The same is happening for things like eggs, milk, bread.
Probably more since theres a lot of down stream services that rely on rail way work. The transportation system is a large integrated system and if one stops the others will follow with supply issues running rampant throughout the country.
no, you would have substitution with air/road/water transportation if rail shut down and most industry models account for these dynamic effects; most of this modelling is computable general equilibrium modelling which assume certain elasiticites and switching costs between largely substitutable goods
Why do you think they elected a brown man this time? To shift the blame onto him and other "brown migrants", despite the fact that all the shortfallings of the British economy were primarily caused by other white Anglos.
If things were being shipped by rail it means that it was the most economic method, otherwise it wouldn't have been shipped by rail. It also assumes that there is surplus capacity in other transportation modes. If there is not then no further transportation occurs.
"Elected" by his party members essentially, to act as the scapegoat.
Wrong. Air is much higher price and water/road transport is already at capacity. Absorbing all the rail transport cargo will further overload the system causing further economic supply shortage and slowdown. This is a big deal.