Bring Back British Rail
@bringbackBR
Campaigning for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit, since 2009 🚆 Sign our petition at http://bringbackbritishrail.org
We're celebrating @SW_Help being brought back into public ownership today👏 But the real fight begins with the Railways Bill later this year🚆✊ @UKLabour's plan to maintain “An ongoing role for the private sector” risks undermining #GreatBritishRailways bringbackbritishrail.org/2025/05/celebr…
⚠️ Major dispute now brewing for Network Rail as Virgin fights to get back into open access, @railandroad again taking the side of private companies. Its only a matter of time before one of these companies sues the taxpayer. @Heidi_Labour must intervene. vist.ly/3xwvp
Fantastic new documentary on Great British Railways, asking why the govt is so slow to come up with a proper plan. Made by the talented young filmmaker Riku Fryderyk, feat @ellieharrison @bringbackbr and @christianwolmar youtube.com/watch?v=c_6UWj…
Brilliant to see @c2c_Rail now back in public ownership!👏 But just how long will we be waiting until #GreatBritishRailways is established?🚉🤔 Watch 14-year-old film maker Riku Fryderyk try to make sense of it in this new documentary 👇 @We_OwnIt youtube.com/watch?v=c_6UWj…
Privatisation by the back door - will we even get rid of these bloodsuckers? @railandroad is still letting private firms in - disrespecting democracy. @Heidi_Labour, impose a moratorium on new 'open-access' approvals. weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. But if @Heidi_Labour doesn't impose a moratorium on @RailandRoad approving more open access applications, they can lock in privatization for decades. Please step in URGENTLY. @we_ownit open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. But if @Heidi_Labour doesn't impose a moratorium on @RailandRoad approving more open access applications, they can lock in privatisation for decades. Please step in URGENTLY. Sign @we_ownit's open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
Hundreds of members of the public have added comments to the @We_OwnIt letter, supporting the demand to urgently end 'open access' rail services. To add your comment scroll to the bottom of the page - all msgs will be brought to @Heidi_Labour's attention: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
🚨8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. And the government is working on delivering it. But @railandroad is still letting private firms in - disrespecting democracy😡 @Heidi_Labour, impose a moratorium on new 'open-access'. Our letter👉 vist.ly/3xwvp
@Heidi_Labour Please block ALL applications from private rail companies chasing the profitable routes. The public have had enough of this profiteering at our expense. weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
8 in 10 of us back full #publicownership of #rail. But if @Heidi_Labour doesn't impose a moratorium on @RailandRoad approving more open access applications, they can lock in privatisation for decades. Please step in URGENTLY. @we_ownit open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
After @Heidi_Labour intervenes in open access we need to see complete reform of the @railandroad It must become a 'public interest regulator', making all its decisions in the socioeconomic interest - and never that of private companies. weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
@Heidi_Labour impose a moratorium on @RailandRoad approving more open access applications NOW Virgin and FirstGroup are flooding the regulator with applications to cherry-pick profitable routes BEFORE the law changes, @we_ownit open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
We must not risk back-tracking on a big win for the public and for common sense. If @Heidi_Labour doesn't stop @RailandRoad approving more open access applications, they will lock in privatisation for decades. URGENT @we_ownit open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
Open access will dilute the effectiveness of a nationalisation programme and force a public operator to behave like a private company which is exactly what we don't want! The evidence is clear that competition for public services is wasteful and results in profit leakage.
Stop open access!
Great British Railways is being put at risk by predatory private train operators. They want to rob it of revenue, overcrowd our railways, & pose a threat to timetables, to the economy, & to railway reform. Our message to @Heidi_Labour: don't let them. vist.ly/3xxy5
Private ‘open access’ train operators are creating a crisis for the entire railway, wasting £billions of tax-payers' money. We're calling on Heidi Alexander to stop them in their tracks. Read our open letter: vist.ly/3xx4p
🚨 We demand an urgent moratorium on 'open access' contracts, which waste hundreds of millions per year of public money. @railandroad is ignoring the economic threats and this is @Heidi_Labour's last chance to protect the future of Great British Railways weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
🚨8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. And the government is working on delivering it. But @railandroad is still letting private firms in - disrespecting democracy😡 @Heidi_Labour, impose a moratorium on new 'open-access'. Our letter👉 vist.ly/3xwvp
📢 Read our letter to @Heidi_Labour demanding urgent action to stop @RailandRoad awarding new contracts to private companies 🚆💸 Allowing 'open access' operators to continue will completely undermine our new publicly-owned #GreatBritishRailways 📩 weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
.@FirstGroupplc is claiming that private 'open access' rail services add value to the UK economy. But they don't even believe their own fantasy economics. Objecting to an open access application, First's own company @GWRHelp has said it causes 'severe damage' to public money.
⚠️ The economic damage caused by open access is worse now than ever. Between 2007 and 2021, publicly-owned operator LNER would have had 82% of open access revenue. From 2022, this rose to above 90%. Source: 'Impact of Open Access on LNER' report, concealed by @transportgovuk