Keep East Coast Public

1st August 2013 | Demonstration / News

Bring Back British Rail is joining forces with Action For Rail, We Own It and many other groups and organisations around the country (listed below) to launch the new Keep East Coast Public campaign this summer.

In November 2009 the East Coast mainline was re-nationalised when National Express abruptly handed back the keys, after they realised it wasn’t the cash cow they had hoped.

Now in public ownership, East Coast is thriving – it receives the lowest subsidy of any of the train operators and has returned nearly £800m in profit to the taxpayer in the last four years.

East Coast is the rare success story of this disastrous franchise system. In public ownership it has brought us that one step closer to our dream of Bringing Back British Rail. We cannot let the Tories re-privatise East Coast and watch the profiteers mess things up again!

Sign the petition on 38 Degrees >
Write to your MP using Action For Rail’s online tool >

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