Explore the Guardian’s tracker to see which operators are nationalised and if services are improving under public ownership ...

A public sector operator will be running trains as soon as possible under a Labour government, with the current franchising system set to be scrapped, the shadow transport secretary has indicated.

The UK rail franchising model was replaced with the Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements (ERMAs). Credit: Tom Page from London, UK via Wikipedia. The UK Government has ended the rail franchising ...

After 30 years of privatisation Britain’s railways are in a disastrous state. When British Rail was privatised by the Conservative government in 1993, after decades of deliberate underfunding, they ...

In the early 1990s, Britain launched a bold privatisation experiment. It broke up its national rail operator, British Rail, and handed over rail services to private sector operators, with ...

The end of the UK railway franchising system will shake things up in the industry. Credit: Adrien Olichon. The UK Government has announced on 21 September its plan to end the UK rail franchising ...

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