A Better Railway for Britain Report
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Including free stickers and delivery in the UK. Grab yourself a print copy of Bring Back British Rail’s first report A Better Railway for Britain: Re-unifying our railways under public ownership, which was launched in the Houses of Parliament in London on 13 October 2016.
A Better Railway for Britain is written by Bring Back British Rail’s Oliver Lewis with preface, editing, design and layout by campaign founder Ellie Harrison. It features images from the last five years of the campaign and many other full colour illustrations, including a special updated version of Rail Privatisation: A Timeline of Failures based on the design of British Rail’s 1979 ‘Go Direct by Inter-City‘ poster.
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‘Our railways should never have been given away in the first place. They’re a utility, a service and not a cash cow for rich investors’ says Bring Back British Rail Supporter Steve Pearce, Thatcham. Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
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Ha, add water, power, many NHS services, almost all council services. A shocking amount of the military and various police functions, air traffic control. I'm probably missing loads. Ooo the forensics people. That has caused a butt load of pain for the police. The BBC were forced to take bids from outside production companies. Anyone up for privatising MP's? France, would you like to bid? if you can provide 20pc savings with a 20pc return you're in the ballpark of other privatised deals.
Underfund, privatize, milk until it fails, then get the government of the day to prop you up year after year. Making a lot more millions for the shareholder pot, Then sell to the yanks for a fat profit. Finally, leave the country for a non-dom so you don't have to pay tax, job done!
Same as lots of other services where did the money go why are most of them not fit for purpose???
How many assets do you sell then continue to heavily subsidise and pay for track maintenance and infrastructure
wtf were the Government doing, selling the pipelines that supply fuel to RAF sites around the country (to the Spanish) It's not theirs to sell!
These Tories trash everything. NHS next?
Same here in Australia
I don't see any mention these days of the overpaid charlaton Beeching who crippled the rural areas with his cuts based on a one day traffic survey.
"The problem of failing rail operators could be solved by taking control by means of a new government owned company to run the franchises. All options would be considered." This is from Ukip's new Manifesto
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Labour 'could nationalise rail in five years'
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John McDonnell says he will create a Treasury unit to oversee the party's plans for more public ownership.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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For everyone claiming this is unaffordable; The privatised rail companies receive more in subsidies now than when they were nationalised. We can't afford NOT to nationalise them. The cost of running the railway has more than doubled in real terms since privatisation from £2.4bn per year (1990–91 to 1994–95) to approximately £5.4bn per year (2005–06 to 2009–10). Official figures show that all but one of the private train operators in the UK receive more in subsidies than they return in the form of franchise payments to the government. In 2013–14, the government contributed £3.8bn to the UK rail industry. The top five recipients of public subsidy alone received almost £3bn in taxpayer support between 2007 and 2011. This allowed them to make operating profits of £504m – over 90 per cent (£466m) of which was paid to shareholders.
Not sure why people think Corbyn's Labour has anything to do with the Blair New Labour project. That or you're a bunch of misers. Labour are your only real hope to bring back British Rail so get a grip.
Whilst I would like to see the railways sorting out and if need be re nationalising, the last thing that's wanted is a labour government, blimey if that happened they'd ruin the country and we wouldn't need a railway system as no one could afford the fare as we'd all be out of a job.
Five years Labour won't be in power for at least ten years When push comes to shove the electorate will realise just what a bunch of commies they are
Wonder why they didn't do it the last 2 times they were in power then?!? If anyone believes this, they are seriously gullible as ****.
Of course they could, until they actually see the true cost of doing so, then like the rest another promise left to pass by the wayside
This is a double-edged sword. YES, I'd like the rail industry to be re-nationalized. NO, I'd rather not see Labour do it by stealing it back and not compensating those it's stealing it from. Labour have said that they won't necessarily compensate those who currently own the privatised businesses. That means that the people who bought shares in BT, British Gas, and others may lose all of their money. That also means that there may be a MASSIVE loss for companies that have invested out pension contributions into those businesses. In other words, not only have successive governments of both sides robbed us of cash in our pension pots, but they plan to continue to do so. Naysayers on Brexit may claim that it will upset the applecart. That it will have a massive economic impact. Not compensating current shareholders in these businesses when stealing them back might have a bigger impact.
Another load of bullshit they would A] have to get in and can’t see that in the near future and B] why on earth would you it wasn’t that good from memory lol. Those rose tinted glasses seem to forget how run down it all was in the 70/80s
There will be a huge mesh of bureaucracy and contracts which will not be able to be unravelled. Whilst I laud the idea of re-nationalization it is a pipe dream. I just hope campaigns like this scare the companies into providing better services for a more reasonable price. Currently we get shit service for exorbitant prices.
Labour were in power for over a decade and could have brought the railways back into public ownership at no cost as all the franchises came up during that time. They chose not to. So it's only a ploy to try and win votes
Now this I can get behind, it's long overdue, just like the trains of late. Excellent idea
Didnae take them 5 years after ele3ction in 1945..
I would love to be a fly on the wall at Arriva In Doxford park if this does happen 🤔😂😂😂👍👍
Labour can’t make a cup of tea without f**king it up..... they have to get into power first... tossers
They don’t seem to remember the state of the railway the last time we had a nationalised railway and also the state of UK finances left by the Labour Party when they left
Five years? Why not 5 weeks or 5 months at the most. And the banks, the drug companies, the privatised parts of our NHS and so on.
I'd love them too. As an ex Labour voter I have to ask how they could do it for nothing though. I flat out don't believe them. It's close to thinking we could take Iraq without firing a bullet.
All political parties use the words " might " "could" "maybe" just to frighten or persuade us to cast our vote in their direction. It is all hot air and half truths. Labour are probably the best exponents of this as history demonstrates
One lie that one hears constantly repeated was what a disaster BR was. In fact, it was a highly efficient, value for money railway. Anyone who thinks otherwise has been brainwashed by privateer propaganda.
When the railways are re-nationalised we also need to think about rejuvenating the railway workshop industry and rebuilding BREL! I'd like to see the new corporate identity combining the graphic styling of British Rail with the colour schemes of British Railways - the first incarnation of the nationalised system.
One other slight issue with this is, to privatise anything goes against EU competition rules. Therefore we would have to leave the EU fully for this to be able to happen. Currently Labour cannot make their minds up whether we should leave or not.
I would find this easier to believe if Labour was not still supporting HS2 which is in deep trouble. They (Labour) are irresponsible for not listening to the facts that are out there about the incompetence, corruption and lying that is going on - and the rest. Corbyn recklessly promises £10 billion for NPR and hasn't explained where he's going to find the money to pay for HS2 which will be way more than £100 billion.
Gas electric water royal mail prison service take it all back the private sectors one big rip off fleecing the tax payer
Make fares loads cheaper, or free public transport
Don’t see it happening. Labour sitting on the Fence to long over Brexit by the time they get around to British rail it will be extinct. All the board of directors of train companies will have run off with the cash.
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BBC Radio 2 did a feature on The Jeremy Vine show this lunchtime asking 'Should we Bring Back British Rail?' Our campaign's Ellie Harrison joined in the debate (from 05:12 onwards) bringbackbritishrail.org/media ...
20 Sep 2018: BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine asks Should we bring back British Rail?
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Yes !! All public transport should be re-nationalised , as should the UK's utility companies . Privatisation only means higher prices !!
Simple answer - yes!
Of course. Some people say it had faults but those only came with Thatcher running down the subsidies.
What an idiot that man is. The reason I wouldn't want 3 companies running on one route is because a fare will only be valid on the company the ticket was bought on. Then when there is delays and problems there won't be able to use it on a different operater. That problem is happening now with TPE selling its own cheaper tickets between Darlington and Newcastle. TPE often terminate at Darlington and York when running late and passengers are stranded at Newcastle. Then there is Middlesbrough station. TPE run the station but Northern is the main user. If there is problems TPE staff now refuse to share information with Northern passengers. Defragmentation of the system is getting worse and is now failing passenger on a massive scale. Northern and TPE know exactly what dirty games their playing.
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Turn your favourite bag, coat, hat, wallet, jacket, whatever into Bring Back British Rail merchandise with our new embroidered patches! All proceeds support our volunteer-run campaign. Order online at: bringbackbritishrail.org/support ...
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Ought to tie these on train seats...never been a more ESSENTIAL campaign.
Always meant to ask, but why's the logo back-to-front?
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Is it really worth spending more money on overpaid consultants to tell us what we already know? Let's just end the farce of franchising and Bring Back British Rail! Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
'Broken' rail system to be reviewed
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Typical .... how do they always tackle things??? Oh lets form yet another committee and talk about forming a review to talk about launching an inquiry into wether we should hire some consultants to advise us on how to talk about the next step in the assessment process, and so on and so on and so on...
Is it only the railways where consultants are overpaid? If we got rid of parliament and politicians just think how much easier, DOCTORS, SURGEONS, NURSES, HEADTEACHERS, TEACHERS, CHIEF CONSTABLES, CONSTABLES, et, cetera would find their jobs. TOO MANY EXPERTS (idiots) telling those who KNOW THEIR JOB how not to do it.
The best example here are the so called experts who having interviewed the person for about fifteen minutes think they are qualified above that person's doctors, surgeons, et cetera and pass the person fit to work. I wager if a corpse were to go before one of the d.w.p.s interviews it would be past fit.
Just nationalise the thing and run it properly.. there, that advice cost dod all
Yet they STILL want to build HS2 at tremendous cost!!!
Any other railway system in the world run cheaper for the passenger and more efficient carry more people none of this we will hammer the commuters why not fixed price regardless of time of day longer trains at different times of days in days gone pass if a train was getting full the guards would call ahead to the next station and have a coach put on the rear.
I wish they would so I could sue conservative government for loss off half my pension when Jarvis went bust
It’s the Dutch that run a lot of it so after Brexit it isn’t really news that we’d need to come up with an alternative.
The problem was the way it was privatised. If John Major had had his way, there would simply have been a return to the four private regional companies that existed before nationalisation in 1948. He was overruled (a) by idealogues on the right of his party who sought to balkanise the railways in a way that would make it extremely difficult to renationalise, and (b) by the Treasury, who saw an opportunity to make lots of money from franchise holders. People complain about the private companies who hold rail franchises making money at the expense of the travelling public and of course they do, but the returns they get from the services they run yield relatively small profits, in most cases not much more than 5%, after their costs are taken into account. That includes hefty payments to the Treasury for the privilege of running the franchise. The East Coast debacle cost Stagecoach millions, while the Treasury made fat profits from them. This system is not fit for purpose. But anyone who advocates returning to full nationalisation cannot remember the cash-starved days of BR, constantly a long way down the queue for Treasury spending. The railways have probably always been a political football; certainly since WW1. Powerful lobbyists from the oil industry and road haulage have made sure railways are a poor relation of road transport. Other countries do things rather better, but they are probably less corrupt than Britain.
Typical of this government - happy to give a huge sum of our money to some friend of theirs in a suit, who will reach the same conclusions any day-to-day rail passenger could tell you for nothing. After the inquiry, they will announce that they have an exciting new policy for the future. Why bother providing more trains, more frequent trains, or better trains... when you can have a SuperDuper Policy instead :) !
Nationalisation won’t be a gravy train for consultants, they’ll probably come up with some insanely complicated solution that will earn them even more cash and make things even worse.
At end of the day, alot of these current strikes on several TOCs like southern, South western, northern, and greater Anglia are down to the DFT specifying that guards need to be removed from trains, just wait as franchises renew, with Southeasterns in April 2019, just wait for the strikes to begin on there as that will be the next train operator the DFT wants guards gone from. At end of the day the only failure im the franchising system is the government's own department, not the train operators themselves
Too little too late. Who trusts anyone to do with John Lewis anyway.
Anything that was public owned and then privatised is going to cost a lot more money. Private business has to make a profit, it’s not rocket science.
A review buy the gory party.? I can write the summary now. market forces, less regulation of fares, longer franchises, lowest bid wins, larger govt payments if NR cause delays. Bigger profits for tory party funders.
CORRUPTION at the HIGHEST level.
the Tories are still obsessed with the "efficiency" of private ownership whereas in fact the railways are mainly owned by foreign governments .......really private cpmpanies, aren't they?
Broken Railways, Broken Prisons, Broken NHS, Broken Housing Market, Broken Social Security. Broken Social Contract. Always the same with the Selfservatives in charge.
In my experience these “experts”know nothing. They were engaged repeatedly at gross contract payments to “advise”on local government matters. On every occasion they knew absolutely NOTHING about the subjects, we always had to provide them with the most basic information and guidance and yet they frequently ended up making proposals and set out requirements that were illegal. They still got paid though.
It’s the daft man question , over my many years I’ve seen think tanks, judicial enquires and, “we have the best brains in our country working on this,” it’s usually a simple problem that a daft man would give you the answer to, homeless ? Open up all the houses that are boarded up. No charge from the daft man x
Not long ago i had problems traveling on trains. Biggest problem i saw was lack of communication. The different networks don't talk to each other when problems with trains.
It’s a shambles: the govt have no coordinated transport policy.
Surely if you've got a broken rail you replace it, not review it!
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