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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

What is Labour’s plan for rail travel and will it make tickets cheaper?

A Trans Pennine Express train shortly after departing Manchester Piccadilly station at dusk.
Most remaining train operators will have their contracts expire naturally within the next term, while the government can exercise break clauses in others. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Labour has made one of its most radical proposals yet in the run-up to an election campaign: to fully nationalise the train network within five years of coming to power.

The party has pledged to guarantee the cheapest fares as part of “the biggest reform of our railways for a generation”, bringing all passenger rail into national ownership under the Great British Railways (GBR) body.

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