UK Rail and Trains

Labour will fully nationalise the train network within five years of coming to power, with a pledge to guarantee the cheapest fares as part of “the biggest reform of our railways for a generation”.

One of Labour’s first major acts in government will bring all passenger rail into national ownership under Great British Railways as contracts with private operators expire, a plan endorsed by the architect of the Conservatives’ own rail plan.

Labour will announce it plans to cut waste and claw back shareholder dividends, saving £2.2bn. It will establish a watchdog, the Passenger Standards Authority, to scrutinise the new system. Passengers will be offered best-price ticket guarantees, automatic delay repay and digital season tickets across the network.

bIn a speech on Thursday, the shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, will say renationalisation “is not going to be easy and it will take hard graft, but it will be my mission to get us to the right destination and to deliver for the Great British passenger”.

Labour insiders hailed the announcement as the moment the party would begin to champion its more radical proposals in the run-up to an election campaign, after a number of U-turns including over green investment.

Where do people here get their train information (timetables, live arrival and departure boards etc). Of course every train operator and National Rail all provide this information but it occurs to me that, as this data is open source, some enthusiasts may have created leaner cookie, ad and tracker free info sites. I use https://traintimes.org.uk/ but surely there must be others.

I've set up a new community that subs of this community might be interersted in to talk about UK infrastructure outside of trains. !uk_infrastructure@feddit.uk .

There are a least a handful of you liking posts in the community, but there isn't really and discussion (or posts from anyone but me). Is there anything you would like to see more of posted here?

Lots of interesting trains on the Isle of Man, this No.11 Maitland built in 1905.

-- https://www.iomsrsa.org/the-railway/locomotives/no-11-maitland