Labour’s First State-Owned ‘Train’ To Be a Bus
South Western Railway will become the first train operator to be nationalised under Labour, effective from 2 a.m. on Sunday. Unsurprisingly, the grand moment has already gone off track…
The first train under the new regime, scheduled to leave Woking at 5.36 a.m. for London Waterloo, will see passengers having to switch to a rail replacement bus beyond Surbiton due to engineering works near Raynes Park. A bus-ted flush…
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander will be celebrating the occasion by getting on board the 6:14 a.m. service from Waterloo to Shepperton – a train which will have to be diverted around the disruption. Off the rails…