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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Neil Lancefield

Renationalisation of Britain’s train services begins

The Government’s renationalisation of rail services has started as trains operated by South Western Railway (SWR) were taken into public control.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, who travelled on the first renationalised departure from London Waterloo, said it was “a new dawn for our railways”.

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