“Britain’s failing train network to be brought under state control”, Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced, heralding a massive overhaul of what is generally perceived to be a crumbling railway network and reversing a controversial initiative in privatisation by the conservative governments in the 1980s and ’90s. It will see the creation of a new public body, the Great British Railways (GBR).
GBR will integrate the railway system — owning infrastructure, setting timetables and collecting fare revenue. It will also be in charge of planning and executing capital works on the network, and will subsume Network Rail, which currently manages rail
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