Petition Re-Nationalise the entire railway network and rail operating companies.

The railway network used to be owned and operated, on an not-for-profit basis, by British Rail. It was privatised many years back, and since, the pricing of tickets has since risen unfairly, with for-profit companies charging obscene amounts of money for sub-standard services. This needs to stop.

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Putting safety before shareholders, makes sense, benefits rail users, and can help fund rail projects, many of which have been suspended by the current government(http://gu.com/p/4a5f4/sbl).

This means of operation, where the state, or a state-owned company runs the railways, is not only a proven means of operation, but is the only way of rectifying the brutally opportunistic fares system, and lack of progress on mass electrification.

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Date closed 24 January 2016
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