Keep Northern Public
24th February 2020 | Demonstration / News
This March, after years of failure under the control of private companies, Northern rail will be officially re-nationalised!
To mark this momentous moment, we’re working with our friends at RMT, We Own It, the Association of British Commuters and Northern Resist, to organise a Day of Action across the North of England demanding that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps keeps Northern in public ownership from now on.
Please join us at one of the stations listed below.
Monday 2 March 2020:
06:30-08:45 Carlisle Station
07:00-09:00 Manchester Victoria Station
07:00-09:00 Wigan Station
07:00-09:00 York Station
07:00-10:00 Leeds Station
07:30-09:00 Newcastle Central Station (Main Entrances on Neville Street)
07:30-09:00 Wakefield Westgate Station
16:00-18:00 Sheffield Station
Passengers Rise Up! National Day of Action
20th December 2019 | Demonstration / Media Coverage / News
On Thursday 2 January 2020, rail fares go up again by another 2.8%.
The rail franchising system is broken and it’s passengers that are paying the price.
We’re joining forces with our friends at the Association of British Commuters and other passenger groups across the country to organise a National Day of Passenger Action demanding an end to the farce of franchising and fair fares now!
They’ll be a central demonstration at London King’s Cross Station at 8am. Details of other actions will be listed on the Facebook event page and below.
Thursday 2 January 2020:
07:00-09:00 King’s Lynn Station
08:00-09:30 London King’s Cross Station
09:30-10:30 Chelmsford Station
10:00-12:00 Norwich Station (organised by NOR4NOR)
11:30-12:30 London Liverpool Street Station
16:00-17:30 Burton-on-Trent Station
16:30-19:30 Bolton Station (organised by Northern Resist)
Please get in touch if you’d like to organise an action at your local station and we can help promote it: info@bringbackbritishrail.org
Media Coverage from 2 January 2020
• Transport Secretary Grant Shapps vows to strip Northern Rail of its franchise as furious commuters say they are ‘being priced off the railway’ after fares rise 2.7 per cent across UK, Daily Mail
• Train fare increase 2020: protesters gather at London’s Kings Cross warning of ‘decade of misery’ for rail commuters, I News
• Rail fares rise by 2.7%, hitting millions of commuters, BBC News
• Commuters in mass protests as 2.7% rail fare hike hits, Inside Croydon
• Railway stations to be hit by more strikes against fee hikes, Morning Star
• Northern to be stripped of rail franchise – Shapps, Wimbledon Times
• Commuters gather at Bolton station in protest over increased rail fares, The Guardian
• ‘Enough is enough!’ Furious commuter rages at railway ‘carnage’ amid fresh fare hikes, Daily Express
Rail Revolution: Day of Action
11th December 2018 | Demonstration / Media Coverage / News
Sick of rising rail fares and chaotic commuting?
Tired of the endless tinkering with our broken privatised railway system?
It’s time for a #RailRevolution.
On Wednesday 2 January 2019, as our rail fares rise again by 3.1%, we’re joining forces with our friends at We Own It, the Association of British Commuters and NOR4NOR to organise a national day of action calling for radical reform.
Coinciding with the public consultation for the government’s new ‘root and branch’ review of rail: the Williams Rail Review, we’re calling on passengers all over the country to respond in favour of a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit.
On Wednesday 2 January 2019, protests will take place at stations across the country (see full list here), with a central one at London King’s Cross from 7:30-9:00am (photo call at 8:00am). See the Facebook event page for details, print a Bring Back British Rail placard and come join us!
Sign the Petition
Then on Friday 18 January 2019, to mark the deadline of the Williams Rail Review public consultation, we’ll be delivering our Care2 Petition to Re-nationalise our Railways signed by 118,039 people to the Department for Transport to demonstrate the sheer weight of public support for public ownership.
Make sure you add your name before then: bringbackbritishrail.org/care2
Media Coverage from 2 January 2019
• Furious passengers protest price hikes, Daily Mail
• Anger at ‘disgraceful’ rail fare rises as stations hit by protests, Sky News
• Chris Grayling blames unions for rail fare hike, BBC News
• Rail passengers stage ‘national day of action’ in protest at fare increases, Evening Standard
• Rail users to mount ‘national day of action’ over 3.1% fare rise, The Guardian
• Rail season tickets to jump by £100 for many commuters, Metro
• Train price hike: Jeremy Corbyn calls for public ownership of railways, Independent
• Rail fares rise 3.2% TODAY despite trains chaos, Mirror
• Protest in Birmingham over rising rail fares, Birmingham Live
• Protests at Sheffield railway station as rail fares rise by an average of 3.1 per cent, The Star
• York protest over national rail fare hike, The Press
New Year Actions for the Public Ownership of our Railways
1st January 2017 | Demonstration / News
On 3-4 January 2017, commuters return to work as train fares continue to rise. We’re teaming up with We Own It and Action For Rail to organise two nationwide days of action (in England on 3rd, Scotland on 4th) to protest against higher fares, reduced staffing and demand the public ownership of our railways now!
Protests are taking place at more than one hundred stations up-and-down the country. Please see the Action for Rail website for details and come out and join us!
Main England Actions
Tuesday 3rd January 2017, 8am
• London King’s Cross Station
• Manchester Piccadilly Station
Main Scotland Action
Wednesday 5th January 2017, 5pm
• Glasgow Central Station
Join the action for a publicly owned railway!
12th August 2016 | Demonstration / News
On Tuesday 16th August, we’re teaming up with our friends at We Own It and Action For Rail to organise protests at stations all over the UK – from Brighton to Glasgow – to End the #RailRipOff. See the Facebook event for full details of times / locations and read on for some of the special events.
#SouthernFail Protest
On Tuesday 16th August, we continue the #SouthernFail campaign, demanding that the failing franchise be returned to public ownership. Join the protest at London Bridge station from 7:30-9am, (Exit 1).
Support the campaign against Abellio Greater Anglia
Through our Franchises initiative, we’re supporting the Norfolk 4 Nationalisation of Rail campaign. On Tuesday 16th August they are holding rallies at Norwich and London Liverpool Street stations from 11am-1pm. Go along to hear guest speakers from 12noon.
Stop the Privatisation of Network Rail!
For over a year, we’ve been campaigning to stop Network Rail – the only bit of our railway still in public ownership – from being broken-up and privatised. On Tuesday 16th August our friends at We Own It will be descending on Network Rail offices at 9:30am to hand in our petitions. Please make sure you sign and share them before:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-bankers-selling-our-stations
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/networkrail
Protest against Southern Railways
8th July 2016 | Demonstration / News
We’re supporting passenger action against profiteering train company Southern Railway, as part of our ‘franchises‘ initiative. Public ownership is the commonsense solution to #SouthernFail.
Protest:
London Victoria Station
Monday 11 July, 17:30
See Facebook Event for details >
Print your Bring Back British Rail banners and get down there!
• Privatisation is Not Progress >
• Passengers Before Profit >
SouthernFail Protest in Brighton
17th June 2016 | Demonstration / News
We’re supporting passenger action against profiteering train company Southern, which is cutting staff and running their rail services into the ground. Another #SouthernFail Protest is planned for Monday 20 June at 6:30pm at Brighton Railway Station. Print your Bring Back British Rail banners and get down there!
• Privatisation is Not Progress >
• Passengers Before Profit >
NOR4NOR: Norfolk for Nationalisation of Rail
10th June 2016 | Demonstration / News
As the Department for Transport gears up to announce which profiteering company will takeover our Greater Anglia rail franchise this month, activists in Norfolk are fighting back by demanding public ownership instead. We’re very proud to be supporting NOR4NOR: Norfolk for Nationalisation of Rail through our ‘franchises‘ initiative.
This leaflet will be distributed at stations and events across East Anglia in the coming months. Please support them!
Week of Action: Save Our Stations
4th March 2016 | Demonstration / Media Coverage / News
From 4 – 10 March 2016, we are stepping-up the campaign to STOP the Break-up and Privatisation of Network Rail, with Protests outside major stations around the UK which are at risk of Privatisation.
BringBackOurRailways online action
16th January 2016 | Demonstration / News
This Monday 18 January 2016 at 19:00, some friends are organising a ‘TwitterStorm’ using the hashtag #BringBackOurRailways. If you’re a Twitter user and care about the re-nationalisation of our railways, then please join the online action by sending out a Tweet like the one below!
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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