A Public Future for Scotland’s Railways
28th November 2017 | Evidence
As part of the campaign for the Public Ownership of Scotland’s Railway, this report by our friends at Common Weal & TSSA highlights the failures of ScotRail’s private train operator Abellio and the opportunities for passengers for taking it back into public ownership.
A Better Railway for Britain: A Report by Bring Back British Rail
1st October 2016 | Evidence
Bring Back British Rail’s first report A Better Railway for Britain: Re-unifying our railways under public ownership was launched in the Houses of Parliament in London on 13 October 2016.
Print copies are available to order in advance for just £5 (including free delivery in the UK), with all proceeds supporting campaign materials and activities.
The Four Big Myths of Rail Privatisation
1st June 2015 | Evidence / News
Read this report from our friends at Action for Rail! It’s all the evidence you need that rail privatisation has failed to deliver what they promised it would in the ’90s:
• reduction in government subsidies (we now subsidise rail by nearly three times more than we did as British Rail)
• cheaper tickets (rail fares have risen by 24% in real terms since privatisation)
• innovation and investment (90% of the investment in the railways has come from public money)
Rail Privatisation: A Timeline of Failures
1st April 2015 | Evidence / News
A special edited and updated version of Rail Privatisation: A Timeline of Failures (below) – based on the design of British Rail’s 1979 ‘Go Direct by Inter-City‘ poster – features in A Better Railway for Britain: Bring Back British Rail’s first report, launched in October 2016.
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Today marks 21 years since the enactment of the Railways Act (1993), on 1 April 1994, which unleashed rail privatisation on the poor unfortunate public. Since then, Britain’s privatised railways have been beset by a series of failures, scandals and fatal crashes, each at great expense to taxpayers.
19 September 1997 – A collision between two trains at Southall kills seven people and injures 139. A passenger train running at high speed with defective Automatic Warning System equipment, a fundamentally important safety system, passed a signal at ‘danger’ and collided with a freight train crossing its path. Great Western Trains was fined £1.5 million for violations of health and safety law relating to this accident.
1 December 1998 – A report by the National Audit Office into the flotation of the national railway infrastructure company, Railtrack, found that taxpayers lost £1.5 billion because of the government’s decision to ignore the Public Accounts Committee’s recommendation to sell its shares in stages, opting instead to sell them all at once.
5 October 1999 – A near head-on collision between two passenger trains at Ladbroke Grove, outside London Paddington station, kills 31 people and injures more than 52. A signal with a bad safety record was passed at ‘danger’. A poor standard of driver training by Thames Trains was cited as a major contributory factor.
17 October 2000 – A train running at high speed derails at Hatfield when a rail affected by rolling contact fatigue fractures under its wheels. Four passengers were killed and 70 were injured. The crash exposed the major stewardship shortcomings of the privatised Railtrack plc and the failings of the regulatory oversight of the company (principally, failure to ensure that it had a good knowledge of the condition of its assets) which ultimately triggered its partial renationalisation. Following the crash, Railtrack imposed more than 1,200 emergency speed restrictions across its network, since it did not have the knowledge to predict where rolling contact fatigue might hit next.
24 October 2000 – Connex loses its South Central franchise after a decision by the Strategic Rail Authority to re-let the franchise following criticism of Connex’s poor customer service and poor financial management.
7 October 2001 – In the face of severe financial difficulties, Railtrack plc is placed into railway administration by the Labour government’s Transport Secretary, Stephen Byers. This leads to an explosion of costs and a severe drop in performance. Railtrack was subsequently replaced by Network Rail.
10 May 2002 – A train derails at Potters Bar, killing seven people and injuring 76. A poorly maintained set of points was to blame, the maintenance of which was the responsibility of the private sector railway maintenance contractor Jarvis (who had tried to blame the accident on ‘sabotage’). Eight years later, Jarvis and Network Rail (having taken on Railtrack’s liabilities) were both charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Network Rail subsequently took track maintenance back in-house.
27 June 2003 – The Connex South Eastern franchise is terminated by the Strategic Rail Authority, citing the company’s poor performance and financial management.
15 December 2006 – GNER is stripped of its East Coast franchise by the Department for Transport, having fallen into financial difficulties and unable to meet the terms of its franchise.
13 November 2009 – National Express gives up the East Coast franchise (which it had taken over from GNER) owing to financial difficulties, having accumulated more than £1 billion of debt. The failure of this franchise deprived the Department for Transport of between £330 million and £380 million of revenue.
15 August 2012 – The Department for Transport announces FirstGroup plc as the winner of the InterCity West Coast franchise, prompting the incumbent franchise holder, Virgin, to seek a judicial review of the franchise decision.
3 October 2012 – The government announces the cancellation of the InterCity West Coast franchise competition after finding significant technical flaws in the bidding process, rescinding its decision to award the franchise to FirstGroup. The Public Accounts Committee found that civil servants had made “fundamental errors” in the way that the risks for each bid had been calculated, leading to the default surety required of bidders being too low. The government reimbursed the four bidders for all costs incurred; this amounted to £39.7 million, with a further £4.9 million paid to FirstGroup as reimbursement of their mobilisation costs. In the ensuing shambles, numerous incumbent franchise holders were directly awarded extensions to their franchises instead of opening them up to tender. So much for competition!
17 December 2014 – A report from the Public Accounts Committee is severely critical of the Department for Transport’s inept handling of the procurement of new trains for the Intercity Express Programme and Thameslink. The DfT had chosen to break away from previous procurement arrangements and carry out the procurement by itself, despite having no previous experience in this area.
3 April 2015 – The private train operator West Coast Railways has its operator’s licence suspended by Network Rail amid concerns over the company’s ability to perform its safety obligations. This action followed an incident on 7 March 2015, when a steam-hauled train operated by West Coast Railways passed a signal at ‘danger’ after the driver had switched off vital train protection systems, narrowly avoiding a collision with a passenger train running at 100 mph.
Is it anyone wonder we’re all shouting Bring Back British Rail?
Spread the word! Link to this post using www.bringbackbritishrail.org/timeline and read more compelling evidence for Public Ownership here: www.bringbackbritishrail.org/evidence
Towards Public Ownership
31st March 2015 | Evidence / News
This TUC Report summarises research by Transport for Quality of Life, to show the high costs of running rail franchise “competitions” – estimated at £45million for every single one!
Given that there are 11 of these unnecessary “competitions” scheduled to take place before the next parliament ends in 2020, the Report shows how much we could save by then if we chose to run these franchises under a single publicly-owned railway company instead. It’s more than £600million!
The Arguments for Public Ownership are Overwhelming
1st January 2015 | Evidence / News
There are so many reasons why privatised rail is failing us and the environment. Check out this brilliant leaflet, supported by Bring Back British Rail, which will be handed out at the nationwide Protests for Public Ownership on Monday 5 January 2015.
All on Board
30th May 2014 | Evidence / News
Our friends at Compass have today launched their All on Board report detailing a vision for a publicly owned railway that is efficient, affordable and good for the planet.
Echoing what Bring Back British Rail has being saying for the last five years, the All on Board report demands a publicly owned railway “that constantly improves, innovates and responds to passenger needs, because it is accountable to all of us.”
The Great Train Robbery
7th June 2013 | Evidence / News
Today sees the launch of The Great Train Robbery – a new report by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) about the failings of rail privatisation in the UK.
It rightly describes the privatised rail system as “a serial shambles creating artificial profits for the franchise holders and hidden costs for the public.”
Together with the 2012 Rebuilding Rail report by Transport for Quality of Life, this provides yet more strong evidence for the Bring Back British Rail campaign that we need a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit.
The New Home Front II
3rd September 2012 | Evidence / News
Bring Back British Rail founder Ellie Harrison was invited to write a text on the public ownership of our railways for the Green Party’s The New Home Front II, which aims to look to the post-war period for lessons on how to tackle climate change now. Read the full text below.
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It is essential to remind ourselves that transportation is not just a question of how an individual gets from A to B. It is a social question; an ethical question. For an outstanding public transport system (based on a fully integrated train, tram and bus network) offers the potential to help solve many of the problems we face – from climate change, to inequality and social unrest. Not only could it prove vital in reducing C02 emissions by supplanting many of the individual journeys made by car and plane, but it could also improve the living environment in our cities, offer us better air quality and assist with social cohesion, as people from all walks of life become accustomed to travelling together.
There is no better place to look for this reminder than post war Britain. It’s no coincidence that British Railways was inaugurated in 1948, the same year as our National Heath Service. Both were part of the Labour government’s revolution inspired and supported by the real sense of community engendered by the war effort, to ensure that government had control over the infrastructure it needed to provide the essential services that we all need to live happily and well (health care, transport, communications and fuel).
These huge initiatives were driven by a desire for moral success and progress, rather than financial. On opening the NHS, Nye Bevan declared that it made us ‘the moral leaders of the world’. Even in this stricken, bankrupt war torn country there was a clear future vision. The founding statement of our new publicly owned rail service proclaiming “Plans for modernisation and improvements are ready and are being carried into effect as materials become available. Difficulties will be overcome; the plan is to make British Railways the best in the world.”
Prior to British Railways, our trains were run by lots of privately owned companies. Although these had been responsible for building the foundations of the system as a means of facilitating the Industrial Revolution, they had left our country with a railway network that suffered from uneven regional investment and lacked an overall cohesive structure or long-term plan for development. This core public service had been left to the whim of private interest. And yet, since the misguided and opportunistic privatisation of our railways in 1993, we have allowed ourselves to retreat on the moral ambition of our ancestors and have been left with an expensive and dysfunctional public transport system as a result.
Think of the frustrations you have experienced buying tickets and travelling on our trains today and dare to imagine a radical policy – the creation of a fully integrated public transport system spanning the nation, run by proud employees as a service for the people. Imagine knowing that you could walk up and buy a ticket to go anywhere in the country at a fair price. Imagine a universal and comprehensive ‘National Rail Service’, providing the basic human need to travel to work and for leisure. How much less stressful would this be? How many more journeys would you choose to make by train?
The two commonly cited hurdles – public support for the idea and cost – are not in fact hurdles at all. The popularity of the Bring Back British Rail campaign (and others like it) shows that there is widespread dissatisfaction with the present system and a massive desire for a radical rethink of the way our railways are run. And there is clear evidence (in the recent Rebuilding Rail report and other influential / critical studies) that renationalising the system – removing the inefficiency and added bureaucracy caused by dividing it up into so many competing ‘franchises’, not to mention the private profits continually being leaked out – would actually save us billions each year. The only real challenge is convincing those in power that there are some things in life – some basic public services – which should remain ring fenced from the profiteers. We need to popularise the notion of nationalisation, so that it no longer a dirty word but rather plain common sense. Because this is the only way we can be sure that we – the people – have the control necessary to build that outstanding public transport system, which will make all our lives better in the future.
Ellie Harrison
Founder, Bring Back British Rail
www.bringbackbritishrail.org
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Rebuilding Rail
2nd July 2012 | Evidence / News
Today sees the launch for the Rebuilding Rail report by Transport for Quality of Life.
The report highlights the “fragmentation and leakage of public money that characterise the UK’s privatised railways”, and lays out the all important realistic blueprint of how we could go about bringing them back into public ownership.
This is a brilliant key piece of evidence for the Bring Back British Rail campaign, clearly demonstrating the need for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit.
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Now that Virgin Trains look set to lose their West Coast rail franchise, they say that the franchising system is broken and instead private companies should be allowed to run our rail routes "in perpetuity". Sounds like a disaster to us! No amount of tinkering will make this broken privatised system work. Bring Back British Rail! Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
Ban standing on long journeys, says Virgin
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So only reserved ticket holders will be able to get a seat. So the hundreds/thousand of last minute travellers won't travel. It's not practical for people to know exactly what train they are catching every time. Pie in the sky idea and if it gets done then he will see his ticket sales fall. As I know for one I won't be using virgin as much as I usually just turn up and travel
I'm old enough to remember when BR was truly great - long before the "managed decline" of its later years. There was a binge on investment from the mid 60s and rapidly progressing modernisation was evident all over the network. Also BR inherited a huge stock of coaches and other rolling stock that enabled long distance trains to be made up of as many as 14 coaches - loads of room, guards vans for large luggage items too. The overcrowding problem is partly a result of a change of strategy on rolling stock investment and design favouring fixed formation 'multiple unit trains' instead of locomotive hauled coaching stock. Many of these 'multiple unit' trains are not compatible with one another and can not be marshaled into longer trains.
It has never been a great service in my 50+ years. But currently the whole rail system is unfit for purpose. Renationalisation seems the only credible thing to do.
The quality of service across the network is so variable, it shows privatisation doesn't really work.. the old BR was great
The U.K. Privatised Railways are subsided more,per mile,by the UK Tax Payer than when it was Nationalised And it still has,per mile,the most expensive Railway Travel for an ordinary economy class,in the World. All going into the pockets of share holders and billionaires like Branson and not the Exchequer.
While I strongly support the nationalisation of the railways, I can help thinking that if things had been structured differently we wouldn’t have quite the disaster that we’ve endured under privatisation. Why can’t a number of companies compete against each other on the same journeys ? I never use the railways now as they’re too expensive, however strong competition between the coach companies that travel from Cardiff to London keeps prices down & the new entrant Snap coaches is excellent & cheap . I am not an expert but why can’t Virgin for example compete against GWR ?
Was Branson's view for rail travel just a dream? Branson wanted to run a railway but it came at a heavy price with his attempts to transform Cinderella into a princess. Branson is a successful enterpreneur but rail etc is a different matter.
"Virgin has said it may close down its train business altogether." Go for it, I dare you!
Reserved only seating would be discriminatory to disabled people like me who avoids reservations because stressing over missing my train is more of a problem than my physical disabilities. Also what do you do when you do not know what time you are leaving? Hope the next train has free seats and reserve it at the station? What if the station doesn't have such facilities? Assuming everyone has a smartphone can can use it?
Does that mean that ALL Government subsidies will stop in perpetuity?
And ban seat reservation sales after the trains departed!!!
I've lost count of the number of times the seat reservation system has failed, leading to a free-for-all on board. :-) The next step will be to price rail travel beyond the reach of ordinary folks: only the wealthy will be able to use the trains, and the "underclass" will have their mobility (very conveniently) restricted.
The ticket checkers (or "loss prevention staff" if you prefer) often don't risk annoying already grumpy passengers further by squeezing past them on packed services, it's a bit rich of Virgin to point out something that people would much prefer not to do as some kind of aspirational accessory, are they going to suspend passengers from the ceiling of coaches instead?
I cant see how it will work. Firstly, how do you police it? Can you imagine at say, Wolverhampton where hoards of people are waiting to go to Birmingham. Who is going to check every ticket as they board a train that has as many as 20 doors on it? Then what about the trains themselves. A Pendolino is either 9 or 11 coaches with no guarantee what will form what service. If you have say, a Glasgow service with reservations for an 11 car and a 9 car is used - straight away over 100 seats unavailable. Currently this is mitigated by holding coaches U and G for 'walk up' passengers. Finally, it will only put pressure on the other TOCs on already overcrowded services so doing nothing more than shifting not solving the issues
Branson shouldn't be allowed anywhere near transport or the NHS.
If there was ever a personification of why an argument is bollocks, it's Branson (but there are others). However, in this particular instance, it's him. Take your privatised nonsense and shove it.
I'm currently potentially stuck in Ukraine as I hadn't bargained on not being able to buy a ticket due to passenger loadings. This after a lot of research and buying every ticket I could online. Personally I'd prohibit reservation only trains...
Coz British Rail was so much fun!
Virgin don't run east coast mainline now
I joined railway in 1994 loved it with the size of crew silver service and restaurant cars
I don’t understand how this would work,because on planes you have to go through several checkpoints,so for that to work you’d have to incorporate the same MO at every station ,how would you stop people boarding a train? What happens in the event of cancellations,which pax reservations are rejected first?
What they need to do is this : Scrap HS2 Spend HS2 money improving the infrastructure. Create more paths for more trains, ie 4 trains an hour from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly. Cut ticket prices all across the board. Get rid of advanced tickets that only allows travel on specified trains. Nationalise the railways.
How would this work when the train in front is cancelled. Or if a season ticket holder makes a last minute trip? No doubt fares will skyrocket based on demand, so trains currently packed will be unaffordable to use.
Virgin needs a booking system like the one that ran on the east coast before it got the franchise, if it wants people to book. I booked a forward facing window seat because their Pendolino trains are a sea sick nightmare for me - and the quiet carriage option. I got a rear facing non window seat and a fellow passenger who played music all the way from Brighton to the Lakes. On the east coast you could see what seat had been booked and veto and rebook one that was wrong. Not so with west coast Virgin trains. However booking a seat depends on reliable connections to London terminals, not the mess that is Southern. Maybe he means that unsold seats would be discounted at the last minute like airline tickets? Currently only advance tickets on trains are less expensive and late ticket unaffordable.
To be fair, many services are already run by the government. Unfortunately, it's the Dutch government.
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Transport Act 1985, never quite worked did? The vision was I have 3 bus operators all running a route past my house and I can take the cheapest. REALITY That never last long, now we have monoploy bus operators in each area, with an independent picking up the odd routes that are not viable for the big boys.
Bus privatisation, as every other, was solely about asset stripping, I was there in the industry at the time, and saw a great many poor calibre managers become millionaires overnight from the proceeds of this fraud. This deception presented as representing choice and competition by the very same brand of politicians who sold us brexshit. Stagecoach are without doubt the nastiest form of corporate blackguards but do at least attempt to deliver a semblance of service, unless their accountants screw up totally as in the East Coast mainline franchise. First are not nearly so "professional" however one might interpret that, they really do not give a shit so long as the income is delivered, yet that income continues to massively diminish because they have no interest whatsoever in funding the measures needed to deliver even basic standards of acceptable service, and customer satisfaction means jack shit to them. For First to lose £millions on bus operations in Greater Manchester, where so many routes are conveyor belts of cash, takes a special kind of stupid. 50 minutes gaps on an 8 minute headway service, not isolated but frequently, proves the moral bankruptcy of public services being entrusted to these carpetbaggers. Meanwhile the traffic jams get longer with all the environmental considerations disregarded because your choice to sit in a car being gassed is a "democratic" one, but with such dreadful public services in the hands of corporate rats, few have any other choice, when they have to get to work on time in order to fulfill their zero hours contracts.
Can you do something for the town of Cleckheaton please. We are getting treated like dog dirt by Arriva, West Yorkshire Metro and the Combined Transport Authority. All political parties, MP's and local Councillors, all the press and media as well as us the loathsome Peasants are being ignored. They are causing major social isolation for people. People can't get to work, school, collage, University, appointments, meetings and even the mental health place is cut off. At a meeting in Cleckheaton the Arriva man arrived very late at a meeting organized by Tracy Brabin MP but he refused to answer questions from her let alone us plebs as he sees us. We have a major suicide problem in the area and these over paid under worked transport leaders are laughing in our faces. Please help. Please. We need help desperately. They are above every elected person and our riding roughshod of everybody. They do not reply to letters, emails or any other communication. Please help please.
Please reply, don't be like these over paid underworked transport people. Please reply, please.
Yes it’s a disaster our bus system times you get bonuses then you get them all together
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Stagecoach Bus banned from running rail franchises. Virgin Trains could be gone by November. If this doesn't prove privatisation is broken, we don't know what will. It's time to end the farce of franchising and Bring Back British Rail. Join our campaign: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
Virgin trains will vanish from UK after ban on Stagecoach's bids
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Would be great if it wasn't to be handed to a Dutch company instead. Time for public ownership and a joined up service with useable numbers of decent sized trains (not 2 coaches in rush hour) it needs to work well for a reasonable cost to get people out of their cars. But you know this already.
Three cheers, hip hip hooray. Renationise our railways.
Couldn't they get a contract to run the ferries? Failing will award them to anybody
If he is such a good business man, why should this Stagecoach issue be an issue. Just bid for the Franchise 100% without Stagecoach as a partner.
Crap train service from a man who Sues the NHS - good riddance
If he looses the franchise, he will probably sue the government and get a big payout, just like he did when he lost a contract with the NHS. The millions paid out to him could have employed more doctors, nurses, funded operations... but no he needed the money. Greedy man and a greedy company. I Never use or buy anything Virgin, they ripped me off once and that was it, I boycott them.
Can you take Branson with you.
Good riddance.
Wouldn't believe anything from that rag
I expect we will let some company from Germany take on the franchise
Essential services are best run with business methods as opposed to as a business.
Re-nationalisation of public transport and utility companies is the only way forward !!
Anything that takes business away from Richard Branson can only be a good thing.
Are Abellio or that crap Govia any better, what we really need to to see the back of Failing Grayling.
Great. Bring them all back into public hands. We pay these private companies a bloody fortune in subsidies - that's not how the private sector is supposed to operate, is it?
Can't even keep his gravy train on the rails.
now if we can get him out of the NHS it will be a victory of such magnitude .........
Our present government is totally committed to state ownership of the railways in Britain - but foreign state ownership.
Where would a company like eurostar stand? 🤔🤔😏
I did a jig when I heard this on the news. Best news all month. Bye, bye greedy Branson.
Abellio running East Midlands Trains will be an utter disaster like they were to Northern Rail
They wont take anything away from Branson he is one of theirs
Great! Get rid of that useless hairy faced remoaner tax dodger!!!
How many major companies are left...??? XC, arriva, first...??? Don't include subs of the above...
Good, stagecoach and first buses should be allowed nowhere near trains.
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