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This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Petition Scrap the idea to hand over maintenance responsibility from Network Rail to TOCs

Her Majesty's Government announced[1] a decision to instead of having a state run company maintaining Britain's rail network to instead hand over the responsibility to private TOC's. Her Majesty's Government has previously privatized the maintenance with disastrous results[2][3][4]

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[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/02/exclusive-network-rail-stripped-control-britains-train-tracks/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bexley_railway_station#History

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash#Cause

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potters_Bar_rail_accidents#2002

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