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VINDICATED rail campaigners will gather at Network Rail headquarters today — as Britain’s stations and tracks are taken back into full public ownership.
The firm, which owns Britain’s rail network and controls maintenance and upkeep, will be reclassified today from a “not-for-dividend” private-sector company to a “central government body in the public sector.”
The decision follows a recommendation from the Office for National Statistics that an organisation as reliant on public funding as Network Rail should be classed as a state body.
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