Former Transport Minister Norman Baker says that anyone who is advocating rail renationalisation cannot in all honesty have thought it through. He says: “The fact is, of course, that the railways are to all intents and purposes controlled by the government of the day anyway. Network Rail is officially now a public body, after the reclassification…as for train operating companies, their room for manoeuvre is limited…increasingly rolling stock arrangements are decided by the Department for Transport rather than the rolling stock leasing companies…so it is to betray a lack of understanding to call for renationalisation.” He asks why we should pay to take it all back in house when we can control it anyway.
We've read it in: Passenger Transport, December 23 2016, p20
