freight stays private

No nationalisation for rail freight in UK

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Britain’s new government, led by the left-wing Labour Party, has committed to nationalising the railways in Great Britain. There have been nationalisations of Britain’s railways in the past, all of them during or just after wars. This one is the first peacetime intervention and the first to leave rail freight to its own management.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

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