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Phil Mason, Manchester

15th November 2014 | Your Views

No to HS2. Yes to a decent Liverpool-Leeds line.

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Privatisation equates to the pilfering of public funds into private pockets; no brown envelopes required!
Martin Boyle, London
A new great British Rail is central to the UK being suitable for international meetings at the heart of Europe.
Paul Bright
The brief but successful nationalisation of the East Coast franchise proves that public ownership is best. Down with private profit from our nation’s essential services.
Mike Parkinson, Harrow
I miss opportunities provided by trains. I can’t afford them now.
Anne Martin, Kirkcaldy
My husband worked for BR for 40 years, and he said all along not to sell and privatise. He ended up working for Alstom – the worst thing that could have happened – redundant.
Janet Dray, Aberystwyth

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🚆 The Labour Party's plan for our new #GreatBritishRailways aims to maintain “An ongoing role for the private sector” 😠 What a joke! Help us to 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 by responding to the Department for Transport’s consultation before the deadline this Tuesday 15 April! 👇 bringbackbritishrail.org/gbr We Own It @top fans ... See MoreSee Less

Let’s make Great British Railways great - Bring Back British Rail

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Demand full public ownership before the deadline on Tuesday 15 April 2025, 23:59

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Just 2 days left to 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 of our railways in the Department for Transport's important public consultation! 🚆That means:

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2. No privatised services
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Let’s make Great British Railways great - Bring Back British Rail

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Help us to make #GreatBritishRailways great! 🚆
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Help us to make #GreatBritishRailways great! 🚆
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We'll only get the full benefits of a publicly-owned railway if the Department for Transport & Heidi Alexander end the profiteering of rolling stock companies; invest in our railways and put people & planet at the heart of our new #GreatBritishRailways🚆🧍 We Own It @top fans ... See MoreSee Less

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🚆 We share the Association of British Commuters' concerns that Heidi Alexander has dropped the public interest duty of our new publicly-owned #GreatBritishRailways in order to preserve a role for private companies 🤦 Read more here & look out for our guide to the Department for Transport's consultation coming soon 👇 @top fans We Own It ... See MoreSee Less

Dept for Transport drops main public interest duties from GBR, in major step back for accessibility and environment

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Last week, the Department for Transport (DfT) launched a consultation on the legislation for Great British Railways (GBR). It has since become clear that the DfT dropped GBR’s headline ‘public int...

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Now is the moment to re-nationalise the railways and it has never been cheaper or more possible.
Andrew Gilligan, journalist
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.
Tony Benn, politician
Research into privatisation… boils down to one key finding: the only way Branson and the vast majority of train barons make their profits is through handouts from the taxpayer.
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
The UK public wants a publicly owned railway, and so do we. Lush calls for an end to the failed experiment of privatising essential services.
Tamsin Omond, Lush Campaigns
Let’s make the case for democratic social ownership, fit for the 21st century, ensuring our railways are run in the interests of passengers, not profiteers.
Owen Jones, writer
Privatisation is only progress, if you mean progressing towards an apocalypse of injustice. Bring back British Rail!
Josie Long, comedian
A good public transport system should be the foundation of a fair, just, happy, low-carbon world.
Ellie Harrison, campaign founder
Only a publicly owned railway can deliver affordable fares, good services, high customer satisfaction, properly staffed stations and a profitable return to the public purse.
Charles Secrett, The ACT! Alliance
Privatisation of the railways has failed. Its time to make a virtue of public ownership, and the public service provided by state employees.
Charles Secrett, The ACT! Alliance
The privatisation of the railways was a scandal that created an unworkable and expensive structure which should be replaced with a national unified network.
Christian Wolmar, transport commentator
Like most people in Britain, I think that a railway is a natural function of the state, and so ought to be run by the state – for the sake of coherence, transparency, continuity, accountability and national pride.
Andrew Martin, writer
Something as important and necessary (and enjoyable) as train travel should be in the hands of the people, be affordable and safe, not making money for shareholders.
Nina Power, writer
In 1948 Labour nationalised rail to rebuild Britain after a world war. Today bankers and speculators use privatised trains for tax scams. Time to bring back British Rail.
Alex Gordon, former RMT President
Taking our railways back from private profiteers will mean better services, fairer rail fares and more than £1 billion a year in savings for the public purse.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP
To be able to reduce C02 emissions, by persuading people to leave cars at home, we need a fast, efficient subsidised railway system that’s run for people not profit!
Ellie Harrison, campaign founder
There is no good excuse left for rail privatisation beyond enriching wealthy elites. Public ownership delivers for social and environmental needs over private profit.
Professor Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow
If the private companies that took over the national railways are cutting back and eroding services at a time when the climate crisis demands expanded low-carbon transportation alternatives to keep more of us out of planes, then these services too must be reclaimed.
Naomi Klein, writer
At its heart privatisation in Britain was never about selling public networks but about selling the rights to tax those who are obliged to use them.
James Meek, writer
Privatisation has delivered… a system in which train operators and energy firms compete not on service – but on how many tariffs they can bamboozle customers with.
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
East Coast shows us that publicly owned rail works better for passengers and taxpayers. We need a railway fit for the future – it’s got to be in public hands.
Cat Hobbs, We Own It

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