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Labour has pledged to nationalise the rail network, claiming it has become a ‘symbol of national decline’. Q&A: Labour’s plan for rail reform and the background to nationalisation Skip to ...
[2] [3] In addition to its representation of ordinary passengers, on whose behalf it campaigns for improvements to rail services, it undertakes research for the purpose of lobbying political parties towards the ends of reintroducing a vertically-integrated, publicly owned and operated British railway network. It has over 150,000 supporters UK ...
Labour has refused to confirm if rail fares will fall under its plan to renationalise train operation. Shadow rail minister Stephen Morgan said the party wants passengers to get “the best ...
Railway nationalisation is the act of taking rail transport assets into public ownership. Several countries have at different times nationalised part or all of their railway system. Several countries have at different times nationalised part or all of their railway system.
The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).
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In 2012, the Labour leader Ed Miliband hesitantly suggested the Party may put a promise to renationalise the railways in their 2015 general election manifesto. [91] The policy was later dropped in favour of keeping the current system in place and creating a government-backed Intercity franchise to compete with the other train operators. [92]
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