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Can Labour’s rail plan deliver a better railway?

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh meet workers at Hitachi’s Newton Aycliffe depot on April 25, the day Labour published its Getting Britain Moving plan

“The time for reviews is over. Labour will fix the problems at the root of the industry by fixing the broken model that causes them.” So starts the party’s manifesto for improving Britain’s railways if (as is widely predicted), it is victorious at the next General Election.

But read beyond the bullet point summaries and it’s clear that further reviews will be needed: on fares reform, timetabling and integration with other modes of public transport, strategic direction and industrial relations.

Has there ever been a time in the last 200 years when the structure and management of our railways wasn’t under interrogation?




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