Transpennine Express, the inter-urban shirt show presently operated by First Group, will be transferred to the government’s Operator of Last Resort at the end of the month. It will join Northern Rail, Southeastern, and LNER in ‘arms length’ government control. The devolved governments have already taken control of all services in their purview as a matter of policy.
Almost a quarter of all passenger rail journeys will be on nationalised services once the transfer of TPE is complete and Labour has made a commitment to fully renationalise the whole lot anyway.
So is this the end of private rail operations in Great Britain?
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