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Great British Railways is launched, after a fashion – but what happens next? - The Man Who Pays His Way: The key questions – and answers – on rail renationalisation ...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Settle-Carlisle line and we’re remembering this iconic piece of our railway ...
Great British Railways is launched, after a fashion – but what happens next? The Man Who Pays His Way: The key questions – and answers – on rail renationalisation. Simon Calder.
Railway bosses who own the UK's 'rolling stock' have existed since the Tories' controversial privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s – but is this system really working for every day Brits?
Passengers on a British Rail Intercity train journey in 1985 - Brian Harris/Alamy Stock Photo When looking for a punchline, Eric Morecambe liked to target the state-owned operator of Britain’s ...
ROSS CLARK: Labour's plan to take rail franchises back into public hands might be popular with younger voters - but far less so among those of us who remember British Rail.
Critics of Labour's plan for renationalisation have warned about returning to the days of British Rail, the publicly-owned operator that existed prior to the Conservatives' privatisation of the ...
Re-unifying the system as Great British Railways isn’t even Labour’s idea. It was named by the former Tory Transport Secretary Grant Shapps in 2021 when his ‘Plan for Rail’ was published as a result ...
The 6.14am service that runs each Sunday from London Waterloo station to Shepperton rarely carries many passengers. But this weekend, hundreds of rail enthusiasts will board that train, which ...