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
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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
The Today Programme debate
27th August 2016 | Media Coverage / News
Bring Back British Rail’s Ellie Harrison debates rail re-nationalisation with Pete Waterman on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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How the hell you can sell parts of a viaduct is beyond me.
British rail was crap, I remember it well, oh when they actually run and weren’t on strike !!
Shame takes a revenue stream away from Network Rail, guess higher taxes will sort the shortfall
This is all a bit late ne sale was completed February this year
Grayling is an absolute catastrophe of a man
I thought they had already been sold.
What's next? Privatising the air above the rails?
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Yet more evidence rail franchising is broken. Virgin Trains lost the East Coast franchise in 2018 and are about to lose the West Coast for "repeatedly ignoring established rules", yet they're now trying to get their hands on another route! Join our campaign for a re-unified national railway run for people not profit: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
Hmm... Virgin Trains Has Come Up With A Clever Way Of Keeping Its Franchise
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Applying for 'open access '. After the attitude they showed towards 'Wrexham and Shropshire '. Hypocrisy comes to mind.
i live in cumbria and go to see partick thistle every other week. great service on prompt and virtually empty trains - £13 return. brilliant
To be fair virgin trains are the best brilliant service above the others
The tender for the franchise submitted by Stagecoach who are the majority shareholder has been disqualified as a consequence of it being non-compliant re pensions arrangements. This is not necessarily a comment on Virgin’s performance which I have found to be consistently good to excellent. But what do I know ? After all I only commuted daily from Birmingham to London with them for four years 😂
When will they understand
Be interesting to see what happens if the Open Access gets denied by the DfT....beardy takes the DfT to the high Court???
If the WCML is so crammed at the moment that we can’t add additional capacity, then how the hell are they going to manage a whole new franchise on it? Or, are the capacity problems at them moment a load of bollocks, like I suspect.
Though to be fair they offer the best service by far
I very much doubt this open access will be granted. If it was possible Renaissance Trains would of put a bid for open access on that route before now.
What next? They failed to keep the Cross Country and East Coast franchise .
Can we not just have a non bureaucratic and joined up railway, where fares are affordable (Regardless Of when booked), trains have adequate capacity, luggage space and comfortable seats.
Virgin trains leave other train lines in the dust as far as comfort, cleanliness and food are concerned.
As much as I would like to see the return of a nationalised systems, it will never happen. Not even under a labour government, government and stakeholders make far too much money out of the industry including you and I got it to return back to the days of British Rail......
Virgin Trains should be keeping the West Coast Mainline. No company comes to them for being on time, hardly any delays and comfort on the trains. When I’ve used them, I’ve never had an issue.
Its not a franchise its open access the same as grand central, it applies to NR and ORR with what it want to do with a safety case and if theres track space and it can run that service. Anyone can apply for.open access if it has the resources and all the paperwork. If it wasn't for franchising open access wouldn't exist, open access was put there to bring in competition !!
Hope Virgin gets treated the same way it treated open access operators like Wrexham and Shropshire.
Stagecoach was the problem in both cases, not virgin....
Bring back the class 87
John Lynch
Non of its Virgin's fail the main problem was with Stagecoach
Be interesting to know were they will get their rolling stock from. There be plenty of Mk3s soon from Greater Anglia
For once I agree.
Yes bring back BRS
Virgin are definitely the fastest service. But as I'm often Ill I cannot per book a seat in advance and trying to find an available non reserved seat is often difficult or impossible!
Wot they gonna do, fucking sell it!😁
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LAST CHANCE to sign and share our petition calling for Keith Williams to recommend public ownership in his UK government Rail Review
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Don't miss your chance to #TellKeith Williams to he must recommend public ownership in his Rail Review. We passengers know only a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit, will sort out the mess we're in 🚆 ...
Keith Williams - listen to passengers, not profit
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I totally agree. Why do we need to cross the busy road to get a ticket from a different company. Risking your life to travel
Bring back British Rail ?so why show 2 foreign railways
I wouldn't hold your breathe on the "Williams" review, he's on record pointing out that he's an independent chairman of a government review, not a chairman of an independent review, whatever is decided will be agreed with Grayling prior to any publication.
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Need more early Sunday morning train bec most start at 9am in my local Herefordshire the first train to Birmingham is 10-20am it is not good if I go to toy fair at NEC which my dad taking to Great Malvern to catch first train on Sunday morning is 09.06 am while on holiday in Swiss the train timetables are 7 day with all same trains times !
As a Glaswegian who has been to a fair few "Consultation" events on the upgrades to the City Centre and Local Area Main Streets .... The "Active Travel" group have systematically ruined the bus network. They're idea that you should walk further between stops means that Disabled People can't use local buses into town. They've also upgraded the Subway, but the majority of stations still aren't accessible to Disabled People. Dalmarnock station serves 2 sports venues... and closes early on a Sunday so you can't get a train home from Emirates Arena events. SPT "couldn't run a menage" and have ruined what used to be the best integrated transport system outside of London. You now have to go into the centre of town and go back out again to get from my house to 3 areas only 10mins drive away, that used to be direct routes. Due to the creation of cycle lanes, I now have to crawl into Black Cabs, because there's no kerb, the pavement is flat with the road (& cyclists aren't happy with that either). And they've closed down local smaller hospital A&Es in out lying areas, but there still isnt a direct bus from those areas to the new hospital. It's a total mess. Now if they would back having the same network as 10 years ago, maybe there would be something to celebrate?!
Need more early Sunday morning train bec most start at 9am in my local Herefordshire the first train to Birmingham is 10-20am it is not good if I go to toy fair at NEC which my dad taking to Great Malvern to catch first train on Sunday morning is 09.06 am while on holiday in Swiss the train timetables are 7 day with all same trains times !
You do of course like a joke. here in my village , rural mid wales, we have a bus stop, on saturday there was a man standing waiting for a bus , when i asked he told me that on line the timetable showed that 2 busses a day come into the village. well he was a little disapointed at the thought of another 5 mile walk into town. The bus has not come up to the village for more than 7 years. everyone has no choice but the drive a car.
Bus ridership is down 15 - 20% due to internet shopping and uber.. Glasgow has the best commuter rail outside of London...
Free Buckfast on all Buses - problem solved.
Sam Hayward
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