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.
Interview with Oliver Lewis
24th August 2016 | Media Coverage / News
Oliver Lewis from Bring Back British Rail discusses the state of Britain’s railways on ShareRadio.
RT News Interview about rail fares
17th August 2016 | Media Coverage / News
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Last chance to get your Bring Back British Rail merchandise! Orders must be placed by end Sunday 16 December to receive in time for Christmas. All proceeds support campaign materials and activities: bringbackbritishrail.org/supportBack by popular demand! We've got a new run of our favourite Bring Back British Rail enamel badges first launched in 2010. Wear one with pride to show your support for our campaign: bringbackbritishrail.org/support ...
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Will they let me on the train if I wear one?
Too pricey for me :(
Are there stickers?
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Last chance to get your Bring Back British Rail merchandise! Orders must be placed by end Sunday 16 December to receive in time for Christmas. All proceeds support campaign materials and activities: bringbackbritishrail.org/supportAll the Bring Back British Rail merch you need! 😄 Get yourself a Rail Card Wallet and one of our new Embroidered Patches for just £6 inc. delivery and free stickers! All proceeds help fund our campaign for a re-unified national rail network, run for people not profit bringbackbritishrail.org/bundle ...
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BRING BACK BRITISH INDUSTRY. BRING BACK BRITAIN (GREAT).
Do you do cufflinks? Probably a bit niche and I have a Dremel :)
Al second that
Wish they would
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‘Our fragmented railways are in a mess - expensive and unreliable. We need a nationalised service where all revenue goes back into the service and not shareholders’ pockets’ says Bring Back British Rail Supporter Barbara Segal, Bristol. Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
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Scrap hs2 and money abound for proper railways
I see a comment on "dirty, knackered trains" below. Perhaps I should point out that ScotRail has just leased some of British Rail's finest (at the time it was built) stock, viz. a few HST sets, and is attempting to run them on inter-city routes between the Lowlands and Aberdeen/Inverness. Also, Northern is still running Pacers (142) on many routes, including (e.g.) Morpeth-Newcastle and Middlesbrough-Whitby. Again, ancient BR stock. It is actually the present-day franchisees who are running the ancient, clapped-out stock.
Contribute to the Williams Rail Review consultation, making it plain that public ownership is the only workable long-term solution for running our railways: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/williams-rail-review
As I remember growing up in the 70s/80s British rail were the butt of everyone’s jokes because always on strike , dirty knackered trains with crap service and never on time & cost the country a fortune to run!!! So are labour wanting to take us back to this
Railways are too expensive Anyway
If we remain in the EU their commitment to “free market “ economics and competition is written into the charter Its says there must be competition so even if nationalised there would have to be open to competition from other private companies That’s partly why the EU is a bosses charter
The tories don’t think so.
We shall never get anything right in funding transport too many Mps have varied interest in payment s as shareholders or directors in these accompanied
Chaotic! Every journey- guaranteed!
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Do any of the people contributing to this actually use trains regularly because the media talk cobblers most of the time. British Rail, considering they were always underfunded, were pretty good and weren't that expensive. What we now have is the worst of all possible options. The public subsidy has increased, depending on where you live the service may have improved or not but all the prices have increased and will continue to do so.
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Did you or your family/friends work on the railways in the south east region between 1948-1994 when they were publicly-owned? If yes, then please share your story! Our friends at NOR4NOR are helping to capture the history of our public transport workers' lives as part of Britain at Work London’s new Loco-Focus project. Follow the link to get involved. ...
Britain at Work London Project | Over & Under 1945-1995
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Austerity Britain by David Kynaston has some good first hand accounts of the railways in it. Brilliant anecdote about a railwayman sorting out a pigeon that got into their rest room about that time.
Privatisation of GM Buses wasn't that bad until a few years ago, because there were so many companies, Bluebird, Go Goodwins, Stagecoach, Arriva, Finglands etc etc competing, but it's more or less only First and Stagecoach. Which means almost all of the routes have been cut or are too expensive. We need to either see the return of lots of companies (Whilst banning Stagecoach from buying them) or the return of GMB/GMPTE
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"The UK rail network is run by multiple players without clear lines of accountability.” What's the solution? A re-unified national rail network run for people not profit. Join our campaign at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
UK rail review 2018: is the industry ready for radical change?
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How dare you say bring back British rail, that will only achieve lots of trains, no delays and happy passengers ?
"The UK rail network is run by multiple players without clear lines of accountability.” That's the whole idea! No accountability, just make a profit. Nothing else matters.
I hope this means when/if Brexit happens we can get rid of all these foreign owned franchises and bring it back into public ownership?
Yes we need British rail back. No share holders no profit and especially no loss either. Just a break even expenditure.
East coast rail was temporarily renationalised and made six million profit only to be privatised again. The cash could’ve been reinvested instead of paying shareholders as in the EU.
Anthony Watkins 'zeus'
I suspect that they will use the review as an excuse to break up and privatise Network Rail. The floatation will pay off some of the burgeoning debt but not all.
Be careful what you wish for! I was one of those stuck last May with no train home from the Midlands to Dorset. Some very helpful staff helped me jump from connection to connection to get home. All were ageing ex BR employees, and all said that in their view, things weren’t great, but better than under BR. I think therefore, we need to be looking at something new and innovative. Not a return to the past.
Nationalisation will never happen the government don't do nationalisation they think privatisation is the way forward.
The Government's UK Rail review won't come up with anything radical or beneficial. It will be self-congratulation, another chance to have a major pop at Network Rail (but only because it is publicly owned), and it will promote even more destructive ideas. It will remain a profit generating machine for UK / EU fat cats. Grayling says he doesn't run the railways (really?) so that is a top level denial of responsibilty added to the rest. Why has it taken 25 years to realise the whole system is a bad joke? Why does a "review" take so long? It would only take one day for anyone to see that the "National Network" is a total National Disgrace. BBBR!!!!!!
Yes nationalisation but apparently EU rules wouldn’t allow it
Yes...Obviously that's the solution...
be great to see the railway network running again, even the frieght as it would mean less traffic on our busy roads
It will take years to bring it back in house as the industry is so fragmented now all companies have there own standards.
Give railwaymen the chance to run the railway. It'll make a bleedin' change...
The French, the Germans, the Dutch, the Italians, the Chinese. Who have I missed?
The UK rail network is run by monopolies
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Well, well; I've just discovered that MTR (who run SWTrains with some other shower) stands for 'Mass Transit Railway' from Hong Kong. All this time I thought it was 'My Trains Rubbish'... you live and learn.
That’s when we had proper trains
The 2018 review will conclude in 2019. So late again.
Just remember that it will be the same lunatics running the asylum!
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