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Labour To Bring Railways Into Public Ownership
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How much will this cost.
The rollingstock
the rails
the trains
the stations
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the current Act has been tweaked so there's no natual presumption that when a service contract ends (the government calls them "franchises" but they've not been that since Covid days) that a replacement will be tendered for. this then allows for service contracts to be brought "in-house" as each contract ends.
the tracks and stations are already nationalised, as Network Rail has been under government control for some years.
the trains are privately owned and leased to the contract holders, this won't change, any government operated services will still need to have trains leased for it.
there will be no nationalisation of freight services; it is unclear if there are any plans for "open access" operators to have their operations taken away from them.
It's not public ownership which is the nub of the matter.
When Peter Parker, (father of Nathaniel - The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) was BR boss from 1976 ...
per Wikipedia
His socialist principles were severely tested by the industrial relations difficulties with the three railway unions (ASLEF, the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association) while he was Chairman of British Rail. There were several major strikes on the railway system during his chairmanship.
That was around 50 years ago ... and the bullying Unions are still out of control.
^^ NO their not and thats because their only interest was self interest, hence the debts. As my mum would say when things got tuff, stop moaning and make do with what you do have. Wrapping people up in cotton wool and giving them everything they (think) they need don't in anyway help or educate them in the real world. The more you give the more they keep coming and asking for.
Nicebloke, //Wrapping people up in cotton wool and giving them everything they (think) they need don't in anyway help or educate them in the real world. The more you give the more they keep coming and asking for. //
You should have told them that before they capitulated to the greedy unions the moment they took office.
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