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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Ex-Eurostar boss tells government to stay out of running railways

On time? Passengers at London St Pancras International, home of Eurostar as well as Thameslink, East Midlands Railway and Southeastern - (Simon Calder)

“Bluntly, we have to get the government and the Department for Transport out from running the railways” – so says Richard Brown CBE, one of the leading rail figures in the UK for four decades.

Mr Brown spoke to The Independent travel podcast as ministers prepare to take rail firms into public ownership.

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