Passengers not Profit: A vision for the Railways Bill
18th August 2025 | Evidence / News
This new report published by our friends at We Own It aims to kickstart a long overdue conversation about what our new publicly-owned Great British Railways should look like, ahead of the introduction of the Railways Bill to Parliament this autumn.
It brings together rail experts and campaigners to call for a range of policies that are necessary to make public ownership a success.
These include: repealing competition law in our railways, scrapping privatised ‘open access’ services, creating a new integrated national timetable, one publicly-owned ticket retailer with cheaper and simpler fares, a new publicly-owned rolling stock company and delivering a fully-accessible railway that is run in the public interest.
This report is essential reading for all politicians and passengers wanting to understand the key issues at stake in the new Railways Bill.
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The public ownership of Scotland's Railways makes it much easier for The Scottish Government to cut fares to help encourage more rail use 👏 When Great British Railways is established we need to see #PeakFaresGoneForGood all over Britain 🚆 Heidi Alexander? @top fans ... See MoreSee Less
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"Axe ROSCOs, scrap open access" 🚆 Great coverage of We Own It's calls for full UK rail renationalisation on RailTech.com 👏 Read the 'Passengers not profit: a vision for the Railways Bill' report here 👇 @top fans
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There's so much at stake with the new Railways Bill being introduced to the UK Parliament this autumn 🚆 Check out We Own It's vision for how our new publicly-owned #GreatBritishRailways should be established 👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/passengers-vision-for-the-railways-bill📣Launching today!📣
Our vision for Labour's Railways Bill co-authored with @christianwolmar Bring Back British Rail National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) Association of British Commuters Dr Grace Brown and Jonathan Tyler.
We're calling on the government to make FULL public ownership the final destination of their rail reforms.
Read the full report today. Link in comments👇 ... See MoreSee Less
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