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British Rail for all.

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  • Let’s do it now.

    Robert Coleman, Liverpool
  • Arriva trains are heavily subsidised and too expensve to use. Nationalise now.

    John Atkin, Harlech
  • South West Trains are a joke, as are many other corporations I’m sure! Bring back the rail system that we were once proud to call our own.

    Justin Bailey, Guildford
  • It should all be about the service, not the shareholders.

    Geoffrey Wootten, Ipswich
  • The privatisation of our rail service was an expensive disgrace and should be reversed.

    Stan Newens, Harlow

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😡 Avanti's contract extended despite terrible track record. Passengers deserve affordable, reliable trains. Privatisation is getting us nowhere. ... See MoreSee Less

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Tory Party values.

It's a management contract which means it doesn't matter how bad they are they will still get paid their fee and they will be protected from any loses due to industrial action or even another pandemic ( don't forget the current government likes to remind us all that every household paid £1400 to prop up those naughty striking rail workers)

Built by the people for the people not the share holders

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Bring Back British Rail
3 weeks ago
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Friday 1 September is the final day to help #SaveTicketOffices! 🚉
Fill in the consultation now 👇
www.transportfocus.org.uk/train-station-ticket-office-consultationToday is your last chance to tell the rail companies what you feel about ticket office closures.

Don't let them bring down the shutters, putting profit before people. www.transportfocus.org.uk/train-station-ticket-office-consultation/
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Friday 1 September is the final day to help #SaveTicketOffices! 🚉
Fill in the consultation now 👇
https://www.transportfocus.org.uk/train-station-ticket-office-consultation
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I was in the ticket office at Newcastle today at what I would have expected to be a quiet time. There was a queue in front of me and it quickly lengthened behind me.

Form completed. Not that they'll take the slightest bit of notice. The government has already made up their 'minds'.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/pm-says-closing-railway-ticket-offices-is-right-thing-for-british-p...

France will launch a €49 rail pass after the success of the 'Deutschlandticket' UK also tried to copy Germany, but was reduced to capping bus fares at £2. This is due to privatisation of Britain's state-owned British Rail. www.euronews.com/travel/2023/09/08/france-will-launch-a-49-rail-pass-after-the-success-of-the-deu...

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Last chance to save our ticket offices! 🚉🎫 If you're in London, please join the Protest: Cut their profits, not our ticket offices outside the Department for Transport next Tuesday 29 August, 10am! See details here 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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Join us at 10 am on Tuesday 29th August to protest the government's plans to close a thousand of our train station ticket offices.
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Keep on about Ticket Offices closing, fact is the 8 x Ticket Offices on our line CLOSED way back in a September 1989! By good old British Rail. In this respect of Ticket Offices it all seems a bit rose tinted spectacles to us.

It seems so strange that in the news, the closure of the ticket offices would affect the elderly and disabled people. Yet they have already spent millions or even billions of pounds in introducing mobility-compliant trains or modifying existing trains.

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2 months ago
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📣 Last chance to respond to the consultation & #SaveTicketOffices before the deadline this Weds 26 July! 📧 Send an email here 👇
transportfocus.org.uk/train-station-ticket-office-consultation🚨 You only have 3 days to fight for accessible railways. Take action: www.transportfocus.org.uk/train-station-ticket-office-consultation/
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📣 Last chance to respond to the consultation & #SaveTicketOffices before the deadline this Weds 26 July! 📧 Send an email here 👇
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RMT launch National Day of Action against ticket office closures #SaveTicketOffices

Rail union, RMT will step up its campaign to save ticket offices, with dozens of protests outside stations across the country on Thursday.

In London, the union will hold a mass rally outside Kings Cross station at 6pm while local stations will be leafleted.

The union is encouraging everyone to take part in the consultation, so rail companies and the government understand how much rail passengers value their ticket offices and staff.

RMT is taking strike action on 20,22 and 29 July over pay, conditions and ticket office closures.

General Secretary Mick Lynch said: "Our union is taking our campaign to save ticket offices out into every town, city and village in this country.

"The recent announcements of ticket office closures is a fig-leaf for the wholescale de-staffing of stations, including safety critical train dispatch, safety critical train despatch staff, passenger assistance and other non-ticket office customer service workers.

"Ticket office closures under Schedule 17 means there will be no regulations on staffing levels at stations whatsoever.

"Train operators will then be free to staff or de-staff any station to whatever level they choose.

"Our union and the travelling public do not want a de-humanised railway that will be a rife with crime and anti-social behaviour, inaccessible to the most vulnerable.

"We will fight these plans all the way and need the public's support in joining our campaign and taking part in the consultation."
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Mick is a hero. With you all the way RMT (Ex- S&T).

Please can you sign n share. Bring Back British Rail, is it possible to pin this to the top of the group, please? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636542?fbclid=IwAR2xVXCa0eeyM4FGDrZG0HcCJ4uHRgIVw2LI2InMhgEzfiWv...

Proof, if it was ever needed, that running the railways is about one thing and one thing only, profits for shareholders. There's no concept of public service from the government or the privatised railway companies.

Hope there are similar meetings outside of London. 🤔

Privatisation has never delivered. They choosed to get the trains supplied from abroad that most are still plagued by teething and quality control issues.

Mick Lynch is on £80k+ a year. Do you really think he gives a shit about you lot or anyone else?'

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    Our Supporters

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • A good public transport system should be the foundation of a fair, just, happy, low-carbon world.

      Ellie Harrison, campaign founder
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Now is the moment to re-nationalise the railways and it has never been cheaper or more possible.

      Andrew Gilligan, journalist
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Privatisation is only progress, if you mean progressing towards an apocalypse of injustice. Bring back British Rail!

      Josie Long, comedian
    • 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
    • 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

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