Nearly a quarter of train journeys to be on nationalised services

Nearly one in four passenger journeys on Britain’s railways will be on nationalised services once TransPennine Express comes under Government control. The next Labour government will end this sticking plaster politics Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary It will take over TransPennine Express on May 28. Labour’s shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, said: “This endless cycle of shambolic private operators failing passengers shows the Conservatives’ rail system is fundamentally broken. “The next Labour government will end this sticking plaster politics by bringing our railways back into public ownership as contracts expire, ending the Tories’ failing system, and putting passengers back at the heart of our rail network.” Passengers are fed up with missing meetings and taking hours to get home from work, or missing out on weekend trips they used to enjoy Johnbosco Nwogbo, lead campaigner at We Own It Johnbosco Nwogbo, lead campaigner at We Own It, a group campaigning against privatisation of public services, said people have “had enough of private companies ripping them off and leaving them stranded at the station”. “We can’t trust trains to get us from A to B despite paying some of the highest fares in Europe: at that point, it’s time to rethink how we run our railways.” Transport Salaried Staffs Association organiser for TransPennine Express, Alan Valentine, said “fragmented private railways are an abject failure”.