GBR in 2026 and support for open access and freight

PHILIP HAIGH reports on new Transport Secretary Louise Haigh’s debut appearance before the House of Commons Transport Select Committee

Philip Haigh Transport writer

GREAT British Railways should be up and running by the end of 2026 at the earliest. That’s the headline from Transport Secretary Louise Haigh’s first appearance before the newly appointed Transport Select Committee of the House of Commons. We should also know which of the ten private rail operators running under Department for Transport contracts will be nationalised first, just as soon as the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill receives royal assent to become law. The bill is in its final stages, so royal assent is perhaps only days away. It gives the Transport Secretary legal power to take English private train operating companies into the public sector, there to join the four already operating under direct DfT control. To create fully Great British Railways as the owner of…

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