Rip-off Britain: Our train fares are triple those on the continent
Sophie Allain is the Campaign for Better Transport’s public transport campaigner. We knew we had some of the most expensive rail fares in Europe, if not the world, but even we were shocked when we...
View ArticleNetwork Rail must be mutualised to ensure good governance for the future
By Joe Fortune, parliamentary officer of the Co-operative Party and SERA executive member Pleasing though it may be, the pressure mounted by politicians and the public over Network Rail’s overly...
View ArticleTwo decades on, Labour consider returning the railways to public ownership
. Labour’s ongoing policy review will consider proposals, contained in a union-backed report published today, to return Britain’s railways to public ownership. Rebuilding Rail, produced by the think...
View ArticleThere can be no return to old-style nationalisation – thankfully the left is...
Pic: A British Leyland (Austin) car from the 1970s. It is a mark of how far the debate has come that when Labour announced yesterday plans to take water, energy, rail and the Royal Mail back into...
View ArticleThe Sun is wrong: Taking back control of our rail network would save us a...
Right-wing papers were in full-blown attack mode this morning as talk of renationalising the railways geared up a notch. The 3.4% rise in rail fares this week which came into effect this week has been...
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