Not long after coming into action, British rail was already operating under a heavy financial deficit, having procured all responsibility for maintaining what had become an ageing railway system whilst at the same time trying to move into a new era of locomotive propulsion. The issue was that not all modernisations would be effective at reducing costs, and moving away from coal powered railways meant that it was heavily linked to the dying industry of Britain’s resourcing on home soil. The time had long since passed when the country was working within a balanced economical circle of energy & supply, and the shrinking British empire was no longer feeding back its resources.