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!

All on Board

30th May 2014 | Evidence / News

All on Board

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.”

Read the report

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 >

Power For The People!

9th January 2014 | Media Coverage / News

, Bring Back British Rail’s Ellie Harrison explains how her concerns about climate change led to her to start campaigning for the public ownership of our public transport system, and why she is now determined to do the same for the energy sector with Power For The People.

Together, the two campaigns – Bring Back British Rail and Power For The People – aim to hightlight the disastrous consequences of the privatisation of our essential public services in the ’80s and ’90s which has caused prices to soar whilst standards have fallen, and to ensure that the history of our once proudly publicly owned services and utilities is not forgotten.

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Twenty Years of Privatisation

2nd November 2013 | Demonstration / News

Bring Back British Rail

This Tuesday 5 November marks twenty years since John Major’s government passed the opportunistic and short-sighted Railways Act, which permitted the breaking-up and selling-off of our beloved railways.

Since 2009, Bring Back British Rail has been working hard to ensure that the history of our once proudly publicly owned railway is not forgotten. With a fast growing network of supporters, the campaign aims to popularise the commonsense idea of re-nationalising the ludicrously over-priced and over-complicated system, which the people of Britain are now lumbered with after twenty years of privatisation – demanding a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit.

Please join Bring Back British Rail and our friends Action For Rail on Tuesday 5 November for a nationwide ‘Day of Action’ demanding the public ownership of our railways.

Protest Against Privatisation
Tuesday 5 November 2013
7:30 – 8:30 (8:00 AM photocall)

Euston Station
London
NW1 2RT

See the Action for Rail website for details of protests taking place at more than 30 other stations across the country on Tuesday 5 November, which is a national day of civil disobedience.