Keir Starmer at it again..

[leedswolf]

Renationalising the railways costs nothing as it will just be the current contracts expiring. Great British Railways will cost but before the election Labour were saying that GBR would save money £1.5bn annually after 5 years. It was Louise Haigh who said this. She has probably found another black hole.

Rolling stock costs? IIRC the current rolling stock is owned by the operators. I would inagine the government would lease this from the previoua operators?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Plus the legal costs of novating every single employee contract over on TUPE will no doubt be entirely freebies.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Rolling stock costs? IIRC the current rolling stock is owned by the operators. I would inagine the government would lease this from the previoua operators?

Most if not all lease - that cost would be for GB Railways in so much as it is an expenditure but "should" be covered by income.

 

[pr0sl0]

If all you were doing was keeping things exactly the same, but just taking over the contracts yourself as they each expire - which is pretty much the plan - then you’ll get savings because you’ve removed the layer of profit extraction that the private companies need.

The rail system as a whole needs a lot more work than that to improve, though, obviously. Huge lack of integrated transport thinking in general - like, right now there’s no apparent intention to also start purchasing fleets directly, and instead the ROSCOs will continue to earn billions leasing trains to GBR.

 

[Jolemai]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1864723386246590715

 

[Templeton Peck]

Rolling stock costs? IIRC the current rolling stock is owned by the operators. I would inagine the government would lease this from the previoua operators?

Yep. The govt won't own the rolling stock under Labour's plan.

 

[Wolftone]

 

[Wolftone]

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.and a partridge in a pear tree..

 

[leedswolf]

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Don't mention the......... Brexit!