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.
– 44 pages
– A5 size
– Full colour throughout
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Bring Back British Rail shared NOR4NOR's photo.
6 days ago
"The project to privatise Britain's railways has failed... We want to see the creation of a National Transport Service to oversee the integration of all forms of public transport... Our long term vision is to build a connected nationwide system which is free at the point of use and available to everyone." We ❤️ this charter from our friends at NOR4NOR. Please share!The NOR4NOR Charter: Our vision for a railway to serve us all. ...
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You could have had it decades ago with an integrated road rail system(BRS and BR) but the Tories destroyed all that in the fifties and sixties,
Apart from the fact that this is Norfolk-based, the National version is what I've been saying since the 1960's, (except possibly the bit about "free at the point of use", apart from for holders of travel passes, such as senior citizens etc.).
Abolish bike reservation mumbo jumbo and ticket restrictions. In fact if railways were renationalised, all fares should be always be the price of off peak and maybe bigger discounts on railcards than the current 1/3 atm
There is no concise transport policy in this country apart from provide the absolute base minimum or less and hope everybody buys a car. Now we have climate change, the internal combustion engine is out, the roads are utterly clogged and we know electric cars are not going to cut it. So suddenly, we need real reliable mass transportation. We’ve needed it for 60 years, but they’ve fobbed us off.
I want the win every lottery jackpot for the next week,and there’s more chance of that happening
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Bring Back British Rail shared We Own It's post — in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1 week ago
Here's a great opportunity for someone passionate about the public-ownership of our buses. Our friends We Own It are hiring a campaigner in Manchester. Deadline 20 July 2018 weownit.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us ...
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We're hiring! Want to campaign for better buses in Manchester or know someone who might?We Own It needs a buses campaigner who will make sure Manchester moves towards regulating buses, TfL-style. This is the first step towards public ownership! 🚌🚌🚌
We really need to find the right person, please spread the word!
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Deadline extended - now next Sunday 22nd July
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Bring Back British Rail
1 week ago
"If Britain is to have any hope of closing the gap in earnings, jobs and health that exists between North and South, we have to ask ourselves why the central importance of public transport is not acknowledged across the country and why the investment that London has come to expect and rely on can't be extended to where it's most needed." Listen to Lynsey Hanley on Britain's public transport crisis. ...
Rail, Mind the Gap: Britain's Transport Divide - BBC Radio 4
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Second class service: how the nations and regions lost out to London in rail investment.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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Remember when Thatcher de-reguated the bus industry, effectively making it illegal for a constructive dialogue to harmonise timetables etc the Iron Lady allowed TfL to carry on the co-ordination, ensuring London maintained a fit for purpose public transport network while condemning the rest of the country to the current shambles........
Its not even north/south. The west-country has some of the lowest wages and worst transport links too, since we lost all our branch lines and many of our bus services. Many people where I live cant drive or afford cars and have to rely on lifts walking or cycling. Theres no buses to take people to work on the industrial estates and you have to expect to cycle miles in all weathers
because 80% of our income is generated in the financial services sector now and us thick buggers up north wouldn't know what the fu** we were doing with all that cash
Apparently when it comes to capital expenditure PER HEAD OF POPULATION on public transport Telford has the lowest spend while Swansea is also near the bottom. London is way way way out in front....
parliament is housed in London, lizzie lives in London. Londoners think London is BRITAIN as they are brainwashed by parliament and the media into believing so. Get rid of monarchy and parliament, starve the fat cats, silence the media and things WILL CHANGE.
Hey right-wing BBC you seem to have forgotten or never knew the transport system in London was NEVER privatised that why its works.
The reason why, the same as affordable housing is, quite simply down to London. It’s a shit city and unaffordable. 😡
Listen to this Leeds city council
Here here.
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Bring Back British Rail
2 weeks ago
Bring all our railways back into public ownership! Here's another petition from SumOfUs worth a share :D ...
This move could fix our chaotic railways
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If state control is good enough for the East Coast mainline, why not the whole system?Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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Many of our railways are already under government control - problem being they are foreign governments!
stale sandwiches? anyone remember the snack bars? chronic indifference by staff? The tea from large stainless steel tea pots? the staff often caring little about timetables? late trains? not too different from today really :-( The 60s and 70s times through rose coloured spectacles
A lot of problems is also caused by the Department for Transport as well as the private companies, so i think this wouldn't solve everything over night! (You'd still have the same useless Dft...- that bit is more of the issue too! )
We can petish till we're blue in the face, nothing will come of it. What's needed is a CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT.
They will never, ever, admit they clucked it up.
It will never happen too much money is tied up in the private companies and their friends
Make railways for free. Yvonne Sowood
Not to mention their crony firms making millions
We definitely want our railways re-nationalized, and also set up a new British factory and start making our own trains again, it is absolutely humiliating for a great country like Britain with a long, proud history of railways to give every single order, bar none, to foreign companies. It is disgusting actually. We never would have had a George Stephenson or a Flying Scotsman or a Mallard or an Intercity 125 if we had always done this, we will never have anything like that ever again if we keep doing it.
Signed
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Bring Back British Rail
3 weeks ago
Happy 70th Birthday NHS! But, lest we forget our other essential services and infrastructure also nationalised in 1948: our railways, coal, electricity and gas. Our Bring Back British Rail & Power For The People campaigns continue the fight to have all our public services back in public-ownership and run for people not profit. Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org
Thousands of protesters march on Downing Street as NHS turns 70
Samba and sunshine at rally that comes despite government pledges of £20bn more for the health service ...
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I owned part of all the nationalised industries. When they were sold off (ahem, given away), i said you can't serve two masters, the public and your shareholders. Profits would have to be syphoned off. But I still believe the Unions hastened the demise of nationalised industries and will be the death of the NHS
How do you for see staff and managers at a new BR incentivised to perform better for the passengers. I mean look at NHS GP practices. A perfect example of a nationalalised business that that runs for its staff rather than the patients.
What is BBBRs stance on the EU and Brexit?
This is my idea of 'getting our country back'
Simle return journey to london. Booked train cancelled- next suitable in an hour. Return journey 10mins late, booked seat in carriage with the heating on IN A HEATWAVE so I had to move and to top it off 9 of 11 toilets out of order.
Shout out to other campaigers for public sector reform like WeOwnIt and the Co-operative Party
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