Tony Benn, politician
16th September 2013 | Our Supporters
Transport is an essential public service and ought to be publicly owned and publicly controlled. We need an enormous expansion in the investment in our railways and that is the best way of achieving it.
Labour fast tracks renationalisation of rail network – today's front page from The Independent 📰
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They know they'll only be in for one session
Get it done, then the Water Company's.
There's no bloody need to buy them out now they all return to public ownership on December 1st and the freight contracts are due for renewal on January 1st 2025 either way. If they wait 6 months it won't cost them a penny except rebranding costs. The NHS actually needs that money for ambulance service training at the moment. It's bloody pointless plus the department of transport had set it up to get all back into public ownership by January 30th 2025 anyway.
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"Great British Railways should be the start of a new era for our country’s transport network, which everyone can get behind"🚆👏 Read our opinion piece about last week's historic announcement on rail renationalisation 🗣️ Ellie Harrison for LBC 👇 ... See MoreSee Less
Great British Railways should be the start of a new era for our country’s transport network, which everyone can get behind
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I won’t have been the only pissed-off rail passenger cheering last week when the King’s Speech announced plans to bring the private train operators back into public ownership when their current co...8 CommentsComment on Facebook
It should also be remembered that the same lunatics will still be running the asylum.
TSGN ends in 2028, not in 2025.
you cant polish a turd , too late all them horrid ugl ynew trains will never be like br days EVER...
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Almost 15 years ago exactly we launched our campaign for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit🚆 The Labour Party's King's Speech finally announces legislation which we hope will make this a reality as #GreatBritishRailways 👏 What a historic day!Bring Back British Rail protest 2011 (Photo: Robin Prime) bringbackbritishrail.org ... See MoreSee Less
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and please make it affordable for everyone, not just someone on business expenses
Now we need to bring back the lines that were closed in the 50s-80s when the population and the economy was much smaller.
Privatisation has failed. The railways have been in a bureaucratic mess. Whoever thinks this, he said that I was no closer to correcting him that the Big 4 was a success and BR was a failure. But by reading JK Lewis' acclaimed book about The Western's Hydraulics, it would tell us that they were actually run by the same people including some pre-grouping apprentices but it wasn't an entirely perfect arrangement.
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Congratulations to Louise Haigh MP on your appointment as Transport Secretary 👏 We hope work is now progressing to take the remaining private TOCs back into public ownership when their contracts end 🚆 We look forward to a re-unified #greatbritishrailways run for people not profit.We’re delighted to see The Labour Party commit to plans to bring our railways back into public ownership within the next parliamentary term 👏 With all the Department for Transport's current contracts with private operators set to expire by 2027, they would be mad not to 🚆 bringbackbritishrail.org/news ... See MoreSee Less
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Repel the Draconian and outdated Dickensian Anti-TU laws afflicted on the movement by the Tories. That is a fundamental part of TU Labour relations!
i cannot believe for the second time in history, a Southern Railway and a Great Western Railway will become part of a British Railways..... its that nickel meme all over again...
I hope it happens and please look after the retired members of staff who were not protected
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🚆Is the writing on the wall for Avanti West Coast?
If The Labour Party win the election this Thursday, they’ve pledged to renationalise the line when the current contract ends on 18 October 2026 🥳 We’ll be working to ensure this happens ✊ Get your own Bumper Sticker here 👇
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Labour should commit to renationalising the whole system.
who takes over ! most TOCs are on a simple management contract now , little will change
With such a strong majority the Labour government could bring TOCs under the Operator Of Last Resort umbrella as franchises come up for renewal and eventually we would effectively a renationalised rail network. It couldn't be worse than the half baked privatised rail company I worked for for 23 years changing its name and uniform every three to five years with no improvement for anyone
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