The government is again trying to create a ‘guiding mind’ for UK train travel – and despite the delays and inertia, almost everyone wants itRail’s great zombie hope lurches on. Great British Railways, the future once unveiled by Boris Johnson – declared at times dead, or alive, or simply locked in stasis – came juddering back into the picture last week.The late arrival of a draft reform bill could, rail minister Huw Merriman claimed, still mean that plans for a new “guiding mind” for rail, separate from government, come into law this side of an election. “We will put decision-making in the hands of Great British Railways to integrate track and train,” he promised. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/24/could-great-british-railways-finally-build-up-a-head-of-steam
Author : Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
Publish date : 2024-02-24 16:00:32
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Could ‘Great British Railways’ finally build up a head of steam?
