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Re-Nationalise the entire railway network and rail operating companies.

Submitted on Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Published on Friday 24th July 2015

Current status: Closed

Closed: Sunday 24th January 2016

Signatures: 5,936

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Re-Nationalise the entire railway network and rail operating companies.

Petition Details

The railway network used to be owned and operated, on an not-for-profit basis, by British Rail. It was privatised many years back, and since, the pricing of tickets has since risen unfairly, with for-profit companies charging obscene amounts of money for sub-standard services. This needs to stop.

Additional Information

Putting safety before shareholders, makes sense, benefits rail users, and can help fund rail projects, many of which have been suspended by the current government(http://gu.com/p/4a5f4/sbl).

This means of operation, where the state, or a state-owned company runs the railways, is not only a proven means of operation, but is the only way of rectifying the brutally opportunistic fares system, and lack of progress on mass electrification.


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