Stop Privatisation Merchandise
28th November 2017 | Merchandise / News
This Christmas we’re working with Teemill on some new Bring Back British Rail merchandise, available as jumpers, hoodies, t-shirts, tote bags and tea towels! All ethically sourced organic cotton with proceeds going to support our volunteer-run campaign for rail re-nationalisation founded in 2009.
Order at: bringbackbritishrail.teemill.com
With free delivery if you order by midnight on Sunday 3 December 2017
A Public Future for Scotland’s Railways
21st November 2017 | News
This summer Bring Back British Rail contributed ideas to this new Report by TSSA and Commonweal as part of our ongoing campaign for the Public Ownership of Scotland’s Railway launched in September 2014.
Please support the Report Launch on Tuesday 28 November 2017, 11am-1pm
Serenity Cafe Meeting Room
8 Jacksons Entry
Edinburgh
EH8 8PJ
Don’t Scrap the Electrification of our Railways!
12th October 2017 | News
This summer, the Department for Transport scrapped plans to electrify railways across South Wales and the north of England, meaning we’ll be stuck with filthy diesel trains for years to come.
Bring Back British Rail supports our friends at 10:10 Climate Action and Campaign for Better Transport in demanding investment in cleaner, greener public transport.
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
38 Degrees Petition: Don’t break-up & privatise Network Rail
10th December 2016 | News
Christmas 2016
22nd November 2016 | Merchandise / News
Looking for the perfect present for the pissed-off passenger in your life? T-Shirts and Hoodies – all sizes and colours – available to order online until 5 December 2016.
All proceeds go towards campaign materials and activities.
BBC Radio Scotland
21st November 2016 | Media Coverage / News
The day after Scotland’s Transport Minister Humza Yousef announces plans to set up a public sector operator for ScotRail, Bring Back British Rail’s Ellie Harrison debates rail re-nationalisation on The Kaye Adams Programme on BBC Radio Scotland.
Report Launch in Parliament
13th October 2016 | News
Launching A Better Railway for Britain: our first report in Parliament today – Bring Back British Rail’s Oliver Lewis (second left) with the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Andy McDonald MP (second right), Baroness Jenny Jones (right) and Ian Mearns MP (left). Have you got your copy? Order here! bringbackbritishrail.org/report
A Better Railway for Britain – Report Launch
10th September 2016 | News
On 13 October 2016, we’re very pleased to be launching Bring Back British Rail’s first report A Better Railway for Britain: Re-unifying our railways under public ownership at 9:30am in Committee Room 5 at the Houses of Parliament in London.
Entrance is free. Please ensure you print this invitation and contact Oliver Lewis for details: oliver@bringbackbritishrail.org
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.
SouthernFail crowdfunding campaign
5th September 2016 | News
The irony of rail privatisation is that the Department for Transport now has more direct control over our railways than they ever did with the arms-length British Rail. And, yes, they are certainly making a mess of it!
Bring Back British Rail is supporting our friends at the Association of British Commuters who are crowdfunding to take the DfT to court over the fiasco with Southern Fail.
Please support them at: crowdjustice.co.uk/case/southernrail
Bring Back British Rail
2 weeks ago
Support the original passenger-led campaign for the public ownership of our railways founded in 2009 🚆 Our #GE2019 Merch Special Offer gets you a Rail Card Wallet, Enamel Badge and Embroidered Patch for just £10 including delivery in the UK. Order at 👉 bringbackbritishrail.org/merch ...
Shop Now
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Order online at www.bringbackbritishrail.org/product/bundle/
Stickers - we need Stickers!
Nigel Cross
Paul Simpson
Why is the logo backwards? Am I missing something?
Bring it on labour
Why are the arrows facing the wrong way ????
Vote Labour and it’s within reach
With no unions to stop them running at any time
link not valid?
View more comments
Bring Back British Rail
2 months ago
'Northern rail could be renationalised, says transport secretary'. It can't come soon enough! Join our campaign for a publicly-owned railway run for people not profit: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
Northern rail could be renationalised, says transport secretary
www.theguardian.com
Grant Shapps says it is not OK for trains to fail to arrive or for Sunday services to be lostShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Doesn’t matter who has their name on the trains, if the manufacturers can’t deliver there are no new trains. Also won’t accelerate infrastructure problems causing delays such as two new platforms at Piccadilly, Extension of platforms at Leeds, completion of electrification in Manchester suburban and Stanage route or replacement of some pretty grotty I accessible stations.
Didn’t nationalisation lead to beeching axe etc. Would renationalisation avoid that fate again
Not renationalised, a management company like Southern takes over. There is a difference
It was already nationalised, just not British. All the railways now belong to foreign state operators.......
It gets nationalised, the problems get fixed, it starts to produce an income again, then it goes out to tender to the highest bidder. Repeat ad nauseam...
The 150s brought up from GWR are now as old as the stock BR built them to replace!
Arguably has the shittiest rolling stock in the country.
About time
If so, I wouldn't mind travelling on any of their trains if I were visiting the north of England. Maybe the Pacer trains could be scrapped once and for all!
Who are you expecting to believe this nonsense, re-nationalisation will never happen under a conservative government (where have you been for the last 35 years) there is an election coming, ministers will say yes to anything that might win them a vote.
The Tories renationalising a part of the rail network. I thought private enterprise was so much better at running things than the public sector. Well well.
Northern Rail operated by Arriva, aka Deutsche Bahn (the German State owned railway) can’t be screwing enough out of our sharing, caring Tory Government. Shame, my heart bleeds for them.
And hopefully ditch those 142’s
What has happened or where has the 1billion pounds Northern were given to improve services etc three years ago ?
Seems to of got worse since Serco lost it and that says something, as Serco are not the greatest firm on earth.
Well, if the Tories can renationalise one or two, Labour will have no trouble renationalising the lot.
What about the rail network that links the South west to London? Re nationalise THE WHOLE NETWORK and not just the north.
Interesting read it says that half their trains are always late how do the government think they're going to improve on that when they gave Manchester half the railway they promised but still sent twice the traffic.
Will be acid test for whichever government is in power. Make a success of nationalisation of this franchise and carry on. Fail and the call for further change will disappear very quickly. With cost of improvements the public will demand it will mean that money needed for HS 2 will be diverted and that project will open up in about 2040
No no a tory suggesting nationalising the railways!!! What next a tory buffoon as PM!
And then the rest
Hope it’s renationalised and all other rail companies follow it🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
Operator of last resort??? Should be operator of first resort!
Yes please. And for goodness sake get rid of the godawful units pictured. Seasick after 10 miles...
Renationalising it will solve what? Network Rail can't deliver projects on time ,CAF can't deliver rolling stock on time, the DfT vice like grip on everything will still be there, still at the mercy of th he idiotic local.transport executives like tfgm who couldn't run a bath.
View more comments
Bring Back British Rail shared a photo.
2 months ago
Check out this display from the Museum of Neoliberalism, showing all our country's rail franchises now run by different foreign governments. Time to Bring Back British Rail! Join our campaign at: bringbackbritishrail.orgPrivatised UK train operators owned - in full or in part- by foreign governments. A display from the Museum of Neoliberalism, which we're crowdfunding on Indiegogo in order to open it in London next month. 11 days left and we're at 34% of our goal 😬. Still a way to go! There's a bunch of rewards for backers so please check it out: www.indiegogo.com/projects/museum-of-neoliberalism#/
Neoliberal theory presumes that the state should not intervene in or direct the free operation of markets. Yet in reality when new ‘free’ markets are created, they find themselves at key points subsidised, maintained, propped up or bailed out by national states. The display above shows which foreign states own significant amounts of British rail services since they were privatised.
In effect, since privatisation, our expensive but underinvested rail networks subsidise more efficient and cheaper public train services around Europe.
www.museumofneoliberalism.com
#museumofneoliberalism #neoliberalism #classicalliberalism #hayek #thatcherism #reaganomics #privatisation #nationalisation #privatization #privatisedtrains #privatisedrail #networkrail #britishrail #nationalised #bringbackbritishrail #virgintrains #arriva #crosscountrytrains #UKrail ...
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Forgot to say, a lot of this was done before the last Labour government came into power and they just sat on their arses.
Whilst Keolis is majority owned by SNCF (French State) the other partner in Transport for Wales is Amey which is owned by Ferrovial S A who are a Spanish infrastructure and transport company. Still a sell out mind...
An absolute national disgrace thanks to the greed and irresponsibility of the Tories. WE should own it😡
Absolutely ridiculous that the taxpayer subsidises rail travel for other countries state-owned railways to make a profit. Complete madness! If there is room for profit, then it should be used to lower ticket prices and improve quality of service
This is totally unacceptable that we cannot have a state ran railway but other EEC countries do and take massive UK tax handouts to run their own state railways. This is another EU tax on the UK.
Oh dear oh dear no train operator/franchisee owns the their part of the rail, they have a licence to run the trains for the area... trains are leased by ROSCOs/finance companies and the DfT has the ultimate say what can be done or not.
Our railways, whoever runs them, are still better than those in the US. My American friends told me that but I didn't believe them till I tried them for myself. As for 'dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer than to have your ham and eggs, etc' oh no...terrible food on AMTRAK...we had an inedible chicken burger on our way to Chicago, and we joke about British rail sandwiches! Our local station provides free bottled water during the summer months and we have book exchange shelves.
We have literally sold ourselves off. This is just one aspect and it has happened in many other industries.
Very odd - I thought the Tories were patriots and didn’t like Europe? Oh yes of course, they’re hypocrites...silly me! They’d rather another country ran our railways instead of this country running them as public services. The organisations mentioned are all publicly-owned in their countries of origin. How does that work? They must consider us a laughing stock. 🐀
Tory privatisation in the 1980s was accompanied by the statement that to compete in the world we had to follow EU rules by privatising assets, as apparently the EU wouldn’t let State owned organisations compete abroad. Hence selling our assets off. Which proved a) they lied about the EU, and b) we got well screwed by the Tories. Again, and again, and again......
At least they are state-owned, unlike e.g. VTWC.
Yet people think Brexit will "bring back control". The EU was never the problem, privitisation is!
Well, that's one way of sort-of staying nationalized and in the EU...
Let's make Britain British again, and take Britain's transport into public ownership and all the rest that have been privatised!!
This is so so wrong if when we get out EÚ the government need to take back our railways , as we paying for other countries get cheap train travel ..
No need to list LNR and WMT as two different franchises, it’s one franchise with two different “brands”. WMT being the franchise with LNR & WMR as the brands. Oh and Stansted Express doesn’t need to be listed either as it’s part of the GA franchise.
My dad worked for BR back in the day. Im so glad he is not here to see this, it would have killed him. Just mortifying. Time to renationalise once and for all.
Pan-European public rail now!
Who owns Great Western? They're not on the list
Are we the only country with privatised rail?
Nationalisation is fine with everyone else!
WE want our country back. lest own our own railways again
Did no one want Southeastern?
Put it back to BR, Build loco again, create jobs, get rid of all the money grubbing franchisees.
I blame the EU they made our government sell off the railways. L o l
View more comments
Bring Back British Rail
3 months ago
Keith Williams' Rail Review is due to be published this autumn. Will it recommend we Bring Back British Rail? ...
UK rail industry reaches key political junction
www.ibtimes.com
Overcrowded trains, especially when strikes add to disruption, are a common complaint by those who must use British railroadsShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
We already know it's not going to recommend renationalisation. It's just another Beeching report.
NO it won't BUT we wish it would!!!!
The way we are going it will probably recommend bringing back rationing.
I wonder what the average age of UK trains are
One finding will be the urgent need to replace ageing rolling stock with new kit we just don't have
Not a chance. They wouldn’t have commissioned it if there was even a chance of it.
And...Electric/Gas/Post Office/Pilot training for the RAF/Water/buses...in fact everything that has gone to private companies. However...we need proper and knowledgeable managers to run them...NOT POLITICIANS!
i hope so.
Should do privatisation has failed well done Mr major even Maggie wouldn't touch it
Don't think it will bring British Rail back. Look more likely more money and more maintenance for many years. As long as the Tories stay in power, privatsation likely to continue.
No unfortunately ☹️
Sadly not.
Well we live in hope, I despair at the state of our railways since privatisation..........
Keith William's was a appointed stooge, with the whole point of the review being done for the prime purpose of stopping calls for re-nationalisation and thus 'Bring back British Rail' calls. It could not have been anything else whilst it was commissioned under the Tory's and during Greyling's watch. It will not be worth the paper that it is written on, leave alone the cost of producing a piece of rubbish!
Just because an industry is nationalised does not mean that it has to be run by politicians.
I WISH .....
Fares rising by as much as 2.8% while our railways suffer further in the hands of politics since John Major's White Paper was imposed.
It will if it's not 'stymied' by political interference!
Even if it did why on earth do you think they would listen. Post an example of where the right wing Conservative party have listened!
No. It will say what the Tory government told him to say.
Of course not. Williams is another ten-a-penny private business idiot consultant whose primary interest is financial... "how can I squeeze every drop of blood from this stone?".
No
No.
No
View more comments
Bring Back British Rail
3 months ago
Two thirds of people in Scotland want ScotRail nationalised says a new YouGov poll. The Scottish Government were awarded powers for public ownership in the Scotland Act 2016. Why are they not using them? ...
Two thirds want state to take over ‘shambolic’ ScotRail
www.thetimes.co.uk
A significant majority of people in Scotland want to nationalise ScotRail, with persistent complaints of delays, cancellations and overcrowding, a poll for The Times has suggested. The YouGov...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
You need to think on a very high Political level here. Scotland wants independence and to remain in the EU. If Abellio are shafted by the Scottish Government, it is not only an attack on Dutch State Railway but also on the Dutch Government. If the Dutch Government get upset, they are in a powerful position to veto any attempt by Scotland to remain in the EU. The Scottish Government need to act carefully and with caution.
Here is a bridge in Brum, an absolute disgrace - I remember in the days of BR these were superbly maintained. Ok it supposed to be back in 'our hands' being Network rail, but clearly not as good a set up as the BR days.
Isn't it already owned by the Dutch government??
Shambolic has been used quite a bit in various subjects these days. But using it in the same sentence as "ScotRail" is no surprise.
We should re nationalise all utilities!
Re nationalise without compensation!
Just think of the cost of the Forth Bridge maintenance alone !! , or do they want to do it half measures only and still have Network Rail look after the infrastructure?
Give the SNP a break they are very busy at the moment taking advantage of the brexit situation for independence to worry about such mundane things as Scotrail.
Is that independent Scotland ,or do they want England to pay for it ?
If it is...That will upset the Scottish witch Sturgeon and independence drive! 🤣
It has to pass The SNP policy test. Will it promote independence? Will it have a knock on effect to any other policy that promotes independence? Unless the answers are Yes then No then it won’t happen
That could be the problem
Independence Rail ! Run by Nicola Crankie and the rest of her cabinet....
Aye cause it worked out perfectly fine when it was public owned before
Only 2/3rds?
Why? Twice as many trains running now.
Sam Hayward
Craig Hildersley
The SNP are fake Socialists Like Blair their promise to renationalise public services was a lie If it wasn't, like the poster said, why haven't they done it?
Same in Wales. But ''Welsh'' Labour are Thatcherites.
View more comments