Hmm, i hadn't realised/forgotten they'd decided to buy it back instead of wait it out and prepare.

I think theres more than two ways this pig could be sliced though. Like, these unused lines are likely just a liability on the balance sheet for Brookfield, they might practically pay us to take ownership over those lines again, whipe they keep the used ones for longer.

We can then use those older lines and time without a great deal of pressure to rebuild a government run railway corporation that has experience maintaining and fixing these hard to reach tracks before taking over the whole thing.

Propose a 23 year joint venture with Brookfield where the State gradually takes more rail into ownership in pre-set, predictable stages allowing future governments to slowly increase capacity and funding, hopefully having innovative ideas over the course of those decades.