>>2061125>Pedantic note: GBR doesn't exist yetThis has been tripping people up for a while. We've already had the 'Public Ownership' bill passed into law (
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3732/) - this was the legislation that basically said 'we're not doing franchises any more, we're going to put the railway into public ownership instead', like a reverse of the 1993 act that killed BR.
What's *now* going through Parliament - the 'Railways Bill' - is the legislation where everyone is going back and forth as to the nitty-gritty details of what that public ownership will actually look like; so basically, putting cards on the table, here's what GBR is going to look like and act like, here's how we're going to fund it, here's what it's going to be committed to by law, etc. You can follow its progress here:
>https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4030...and there are a handful of factsheets found below, with the original legalese bill and plain-language explanations:
>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/railways-bill...fares, freight, tickets, devolution, it's all in there. This is the plan as it stands at the moment, so it's not the final set-in-stone legislation - as it goes through Parliament it may well end up being amended in some way before it's voted on.
