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LABOUR MP Linda Riordan has described the economic and social case for renationalising he railways as “a no-brainer.”
Addressing transport union TSSA’s annual conference in Leeds on Saturday, Ms Riordan called for the railways to be “delivered from the shackles of privatisation.”
She claimed that “the present policy had failed to deliver the modern state-of-the-art railway that was needed.”
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
A just transition to Great British Railways and a clean and safe railway for all is not only desirable but also necessary. MARYAM ESLAMDOUST explains
