Yes, I wonder what the journos will do when Northern announce 'all Pacers gone' and they rock up to the station and see a 150 or whatever and get all confused! Research their story properly? i doubt it...
I am not expressing any opinion about railway nationalisation or protecting my one-time employer , but, on the radio, I have so often heard politicians arguing against re-nationalisation, journalists too, by saying ' BR sandwiches were terrible' - even though this is not, in my opinion, relevant (and, also, you weren't forced to eat them, the politician might not actually be old enough to remember them, they were supplied by outside (private enterprise) suppliers, why not bring your own food?, etc.).
Of course there are things wrong with the railways but the criticism so often seems ill-founded. However, and perhaps this illuminates; one of my mates was a bank manager before retirement and ,when I've mentioned this distortion, he says that, while his business was not perfect, exactly the same sort of ill-informed and unjust criticisms were made about it, too. I guess it's a form of 'cognitive dissonance' (aka ?'confirmation bias') - people just accept criticism at face value unquestioningly if they have a negative bias against an industry, and politicians and journos play up to it.