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As homealone said, the rail companies who are (allegedly) proposing this are private companies run, in the main, by venture capitalists and bus companies. ATOC is in fact a private cartel.
Since it's impossible to have true competition on the railways (for all sorts of reasons) the main effect of privatisation is to replace a public monopoly with a private one - which of course is worse as there is absolutely nothing you can do about it if they decide to raise prices*
Since public subsidy to the rail companies is 6.4bn a year now compared to about 2bn if the pre-1993 railway had continued it's easy to see where the money's going, and it isn't into providing more tracks, more capacity (the signalling point is a good one) and longer trains, which is the real solution to congestion. Any other business on seeing a growth in its market would be desperate to meet it because of competition - since no competition is possible the response is the one that costs the company least, which is to price people off the trains until capacity = demand.
Under the current system if you wanted to increase the length of your trains you'd have to do something like this:
Negotiate with your rolling stock supplier (run by banks to maximise return on investment) for new trains compatible with your existing ones, for which, since no one's building them because the factory went bust after privatisation, you'll pay a premium (£££).
Negotiate with Network Rail for more power supplies (£££), revised track access charges and lengthening platforms (£££££ÆšÃ‚£)
Negotiate with HSE to ensure that the lengthened platforms meet all the daft requirements on curvature, gradient and height that existing platforms don't have to meet (£££)
Pay consultants to do all the paperwork for acceptance by NR and HSE (£££)
Negotiate with other operators on your line who have no interest in you running more trains to ensure they aren't inconvenienced (longer trains take longer to cross junctions).
Possibly pay NR for infrastructure works to minimize this inconvenience.
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Negotiate with the DfT, who now say who can do what on the railways and who'll say no if the Treasury objects, which they will when they see the bill.
etc. etc.
It's a lot easier in an integrated system.
* Unless you're very lucky and can travel on one of the few routes with true competition, like London-Birmingham.