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.

At the 14th International Rail Summit, industry leaders came together to discuss the impending formation of Great British ...

Last month’s announcement that the government will scrap phase two of the HS2 rail project, set to run from the West Midlands to Manchester, felt like another nail in the coffin for Britain’s ...

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 ...

Ministers have hailed the nationalisation of the of the largest train franchise as a ‘defining moment’ as the government ...

Passengers are paying more to travel on a rail system that has been "deteriorating" since the industry was privatised 30 years ago, according to a new report. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union ...

Then and Now - for this week’s peek into Inverclyde’s pictorial past we’re taking a look at how Port Glasgow’s train station has changed.

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 ...

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The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 ...