Are Britain’s railways better or worse since privatisation?

At least most trains are now a lot cleaner, BR just couldn’t be bothered, or else were too skint, to keep either the trains or the infrastructure clean. And what made it even worse was that dreadful drab all over dull shade of blue, that looked hideous when it was dirty and far too many of their trains were. And their yards and sidings were far too often full of piles of garbage and weeds, and a lot of their stations were too. But at least now the system is generally cleaner, and there’s far more trains on time too, with some appalling exceptions, like northern rail’s infamous driver shortage which led to loads of cancellations, often leaving people stranded miles from home, including me on one occasion. And if you look in old railway books you often see how things were in the old days before BR and especially before WW2 where the stations, and the yards at engine sheds and goods yards were often immaculately clean and tidy, as were the trains, with the engines all polished, even on freight and maintenance trains. But then in the 1950’s after BR took over the whole system became absolutely filthy, all covered in layers of soot and all manner of filth. That’s if the pictures in the old railway history books are anything to go by. But some things have only gone seriously backwards, as we now have trains which are all open all the way through which is just what people severely disabled like me absolutely DON’T need, they need quiet segregation like they have on the intercity trains. Yet the operators still insist they somehow “conform to the so-called “equality” act”, simply because they can get a wheelchair through the doors. Well that alone does NOT constitute such conformity, as the act clearly states, but now there’s been some kind of “shifting around” with the regs, and it looks like while trains are now supposedly covered by the “equality” act, they now have another set of rules which by the looks of it actually legalise the EXclusion of anyone like me which is absolutely outrageous in 21st century Britain. Surely that is not what countless millions of people have fought and died for in so many dreadful conflicts, making democracy and essential services an ultra-exclusive club. Why should folk like me have to accept what is effectively a life sentence of being confined to home and never going much further than the local shops? Honestly it’s just like being relegated to being like some poor peasant in medieval times who were often so confined because there was no transport or networks etc.