New Year Protests: End the RailRipOff!

1st January 2016 | Demonstration / News

End the #RailRipOff!

Bring Back British Rail and Action For Rail are organising protests at stations across the country demanding an end to rip off rail fares and a return to a re-unified publicly owned railway.

Come and join us at London Kings Cross Station on Monday 4th January 07:30 – 09:30, and at stations across the country. See full details here >

Due to the New Year Bank Holiday, protests in Scotland will take place on Tuesday 5th January: Glasgow Central Station, Gordon Street Exit 17:00 – 18:00.

Join the Facebook Event for full details!

Print your own Bring Back British Rail placards here:
> PRIVATISATION IS NOT PROGRESS!
> PASSENGERS BEFORE PROFITS!

Protest for an Affordable Railway under Public Ownership

24th July 2015 | Demonstration / News

On Tuesday 18 August Bring Back British Rail is joining forces with Action For Rail, We Own It and The People’s Assembly Against Austerity to protest for an affordable railway under public ownership. There will be a major demonstration outside London Waterloo station (exit 5) from 7.15-9.30am (photo op at 8am) and protests at other stations across the country. Join the Facebook Event for full details!

Protest for an Affordable Railway under Public Ownership

Protests Against Privatisation

28th March 2015 | Demonstration / News

SUPPORT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF RAIL!

This April Fools’ Day is the 21st anniversary of the shambolic privatisation of our once world-class railways, which now wastes £1.2billion of taxpayers’ money every year.

Join Bring Back British Rail, TSSA and Campaign against Climate Change in demanding the Public Ownership of Rail at Protests Against Privatisation up-and-down the country this Wednesday 1 April 2015.

See the Facebook Event for details >

Download and print the leaflet >

Re-nationalise ScotRail online action

11th March 2015 | Demonstration / News

Another great example of the absurdity and injustice of privatisation – on the April Fools’ Day this year, the ScotRail franchise will be handed to the Dutch state-owned Abellio, meaning Scots’ train fares will soon be subsidising railways in Holland!

As part of 48 Hour of Action for Public Ownership (on 31 March & 1 April 2015), Bring Back British Rail is launching a Thunderclap action to protest. If you use Facebook / Twitter, please sign-up to support:

Public Ownership For Railways Protest

2nd January 2015 | Demonstration / News

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Join our national day of action to protest against rising fares! With support from Action for Rail, the People’s Assembly are teaming up with Bring Back British Rail, Compass, the Green Party, the Campaign against Climate Change, We Own It, and a variety of local groups to organise protests at railways stations all over Britain on Monday 5 January 2015.

Caroline Lucas MP will be supporting the protest at Brighton station (6.30 – 9.30am) and the Green Party leader Natalie Bennett will be at the London’s Kings Cross station protest (7.30 – 9.30am), where ITV’s Good Morning Britain and other media will be reporting on the action.

See the People’s Assembly website for the full list of stations:
www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/public_ownership_for_railways_protest

Please JOIN and SHARE the event: www.facebook.com/events/897273553646711

Contact Peter Robinson: peterfrobinson@ntlworld.com

Day of Action for Public Ownership

11th August 2014 | Demonstration / News

Bring Back British Rail (photo: Robin Prime)

On Tuesday 19 August, we will find out how much our already over-priced train tickets will increase again in the New Year. Bring Back British Rail is joining forces with our friends at We Own It, Action For Rail and the new All on Board campaign to protest against these increases and to propose public ownership as the common-sense solution, which could help reduce our ticket prices by up to 20%.

Join us at stations all around the country and at our big demo in London at King’s Cross Station.

All on Board for Public Ownership
Tuesday 19 August 2014
7:30 – 9:00AM
King’s Cross Station
(assemble in King’s Cross Square at front of station for 8:00AM photo-op)

Join the Facebook Event for all the updates >

Protest Against Transport Profiteers Govia

12th June 2014 | Demonstration / News

TSGN: Super-Bad Franchise
Bring Back British Rail is supporting our friends at Action For Rail in their day of action this Tuesday 17 June against the merger of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchises into one ‘super-bad’ franchise run by Govia.

The private company Govia is a ‘joint venture’ between transport profiteers Go-Ahead and their partners in crime Keolis, which is 35% owned by French state railways. This is the perfect example of the absurdity of our privatised rail system, where our extortionate train fares are used to fund dividends for private shareholders and subsidise public transport overseas!

Protests are taking place throughout the South East, including a central action at London Victoria station moving on to Go-Ahead’s head office close by.

Tuesday 17 June 2014
7.45am – 8.45am
London Victoria
Terminus Place (outside Superdrug)
London SW1W 9SJ

9.15am – 9.45am
Go Ahead
4 Matthew Parker Street
Westminster
London SW1H 9NP

See Action for Rail’s website for other actions taking place throughout the South East!

The fight for East Coast goes on!

7th March 2014 | Demonstration / News

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The fight to keep the East Coast mainline in public ownership goes on, in the face of the Coalition government’s determination to rush through the misguided and unnecessary re-privatisation our country’s most profitable and successful train line, before the next General Election.

Working with our friends at Action For Rail, we held a day of action at stations up and down the East Coast line on Friday 7 March 2014, to keep pressure up on MPs in order to make them see sense and delay their plans by the few months necessary to push the decision into the next parliamentary term.

See the Action For Rail website for more info about how to get involved >