Damn! There goes a perfectly good train service…

[Mottie]

South Western, C2C, and Greater Anglia to be renationalised

The rail operators will be renationalised in May, as part of the government's manifesto promise.

www.bbc.co.uk

My local one, C2C, is perfect. Trains always clean and on time. Why the hell that needs renationalising is beyond me.

Why can’t they renationalise the failing water and energy companies? When the transport minister was asked that question, her only answer was that it wasn’t in the manifesto. Well it f'cking should be!

 

[johnny2007]

I don't know if nationalising the railway will improve services and save money, but we must remember that the contractors have enjoyed some crazy terms which makes them winners in all cases.
During pandemic London underground lost 90% of revenue but the shareholders still had to extract money from the budget, they don't care if the company is not making a profit.
That's why there's a £3billion hole in tfl accounts.
That's what I've been told by an RMT high rank official, so it might be a biased view.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

South Western, C2C, and Greater Anglia to be renationalised

The rail operators will be renationalised in May, as part of the government's manifesto promise.

www.bbc.co.uk

My local one, C2C, is perfect. Trains always clean and on time. Why the hell that needs renationalising is beyond me.

Why can’t they renationalise the failing water and energy companies? When the transport minister was asked that question, her only answer was that it wasn’t in the manifesto. Well it f'cking should be!

I sort of get your point.

But you only want failed companies renationalised? Just want the public to pick up the debts.

 

[Murdochcat]

The franchises RUN the services but they don't actually own the service - so NO money changes hands so its not re-nationalising

Last year about £26 billion was paid from UK taxes for railway network and services by us tax payers.

 

[ellal]

How come other European governments own and run successful rail services at a much lower cost to the public?

And who owns most of the UK rail franchises?

Foreign companies and governments, and some are registered in tax havens!

 

[Mottie]

I don't know if nationalising the railway will improve services and save money

Well our C2C runs perfectly. New rolling stock being added all the time too. It couldn’t be run any better so if the government are taking it over, what do they plan to do - bring prices down?

 

[Murdochcat]

And who owns most of the UK rail franchises?

The franchises are run by companies, they don’t own them. Huge difference, hence why it’s very misleading for Labour to say that they are being renationalised

 

[motorbiking]

They were all nationalised during Covid when they basically went bust.

It’s mainly a paper exercise to rebrand.

 

[Notch7]

The franchises are run by companies, they don’t own them. Huge difference, hence why it’s very misleading for Labour to say that they are being renationalised

so very misleading for Conservatives to say they were privatised

 

[johnny2007]

Well our C2C runs perfectly. New rolling stock being added all the time too. It couldn’t be run any better so if the government are taking it over, what do they plan to do - bring prices down?

That's what Labour says.

 

[Gone Skiing]

That's why there's a £3billion hole in tfl accounts.
That's what I've been told by an RMT high rank official, so it might be a biased view.

TfL initially hoped to make an operating surplus of £161m this financial year – after making a historic first surplus of £138m in 2023/24 – but that is now predicted to be a more modest £23m by next April.

Huge cost of TfL cyber attack revealed

Finance chief gives first details of scale of damage caused by hackers

www.standard.co.uk

Well our C2C runs perfectly. New rolling stock being added all the time too. It couldn’t be run any better so if the government are taking it over, what do they plan to do - bring prices down?

That's what Labour says.

I see some on here are fully briefed on the current politics of rail renationalisation.

Will rail fares get cheaper after nationalisation?​

No. In the Budget on 30 October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that regulated fares would rise in January by 4.6%.
With inflation currently at 2.3%, travelling by train will cost more in real terms.

Will rail nationalisation save public money?​

The government says ending the payments to private sector operators will save £150m a year.

SWR nationalisation: Will public ownership make any difference?

South Western Railways will be the first train company to be nationalised in May 2025.

www.bbc.com

Judging by some of the nonsense I've read on here in the last few days, I think DIYnot is vying for the title of Conspiracy Theorists of the year.

 

[blup]

South Western, C2C, and Greater Anglia to be renationalised

The rail operators will be renationalised in May, as part of the government's manifesto promise.

www.bbc.co.uk

My local one, C2C, is perfect. Trains always clean and on time. Why the hell that needs renationalising is beyond me.

Why can’t they renationalise the failing water and energy companies? When the transport minister was asked that question, her only answer was that it wasn’t in the manifesto. Well it f'cking should be!

Love this, the government criticised for not meeting a promise that wasn't in their manifesto!

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Buses
Trains
Water
Energy

None of it should be in private hands.

 

[blup]

The difference between privatised services and nationalised ones is profit. Profit isn't a concern with nationalisation so a saving sll round

 

[opps]

I don't know if nationalising the railway will improve services and save money, but we must remember that the contractors have enjoyed some crazy terms which makes them winners in all cases.
During pandemic London underground lost 90% of revenue but the shareholders still had to extract money from the budget, they don't care if the company is not making a profit.
That's why there's a £3billion hole in tfl accounts.
That's what I've been told by an RMT high rank official, so it might be a biased view.

I have friends whom work in higher positions at TfL, yes, the covid reduction in trade has left a black hole, but who are the sharehoders that you refer to? AFAIK, there are no private shareholders in London Underground.