as the government unveiled a schedule for the renationalisation of train companies. SWR is one of the UK's largest rail operators, providing commuter services into London Waterloo station ...

A NEW train station could reopen in Portishead within the next two years, more than seven decades after its previous railway ...

A key UK railway line is set to run passenger services once again after being shut for 60 years. The Portishead to Bristol route was opened in 1867, and then closed in 1964 as part of a mass ...

Public ownership of the UK's railways is not a "silver bullet" for guaranteeing a better service for passengers, the transport secretary has said. Heidi Alexander told a gathering of rail industry ...

‘Great British Railways’ is a scheme to renationalise and simplify the UK’s rail system, which unions say will see our trains ‘run as a public service, not for private profit’. Now, one of the first ...

Transport department has concerns about applications by private operators to compete with nationalised network ...

“We can keep it a nationalised industry ... it is estimated that around 40% of all rail journeys will be on publicly-owned services. The UK Government is in the process of bringing the ...

Plans to reinstate a rail service in Oxfordshire were branded 'a fantasy' after the government questioned whether it ...

It has emerged that the service is to remain nationalised for at least ... That led to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the UK government body responsible for the economic and safety regulation ...

Heidi Alexander insisted that nationalisation south of the border would be a success because UK ministers 'won ... is a devolved area and the railways were nationalised by the SNP in Scotland ...