UK Rail services to come under unified state control

Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by iso1631 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:13AM (#27220666)

So Southern wasn't turning up and Thameslink was poor?

When was it?

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by varispeed on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:58AM (#27221171)

2017 onwards

e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42707560

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by iso1631 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:09AM (#27221276)

So after it was nationalized. Southern and Thameslink are the same company.

You suffered from the political decision that the government made to get rid of guards. No company would take it as a franchise because they knew the fight with the union would impact both profits and users, so they got GTR to operate it under a management basis.

This is now what is happening to every other TOC.

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