Rail services to come under unified state controlon May 19, 2021 at 9:31 pm

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A new public body, Great British Railways, will lead the biggest rail shake-up since privatisation.

In 2004, the then transport secretary Alistair Darling considered a plan to unite the two big forces in the industry, Network Rail and the Strategic Rail Authority, into a single unit, to be called National Rail. This plan finally makes that idea concrete and reverses one of the pillars of the original privatisation, the separation of management of the track and the trains.

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