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Greater Anglia transfers to public ownership
Greater Anglia, handling 81.8 million journeys annually, joins half of UK rail operators now publicly owned under Great British Railways to improve service and accountability.
- On Sunday 12 October 2025, Greater Anglia's services transferred to public ownership at 2am, becoming the third operator nationalised under the Passenger Railway Services Act.
- Labour is renationalising rail operators as part of an overhaul to bring railways back into public ownership and reform the system, aiming to raise nationalised journeys to 61% by the end of next May.
- Greater Anglia handled 81.8 million passenger journeys in 2024-25, with 93.9% of trains arriving within three minutes and a 1.5% cancellation rate .
- From next week, half of Britain's train operators will be publicly owned, and RMT welcomed an insourcing deal bringing previously outsourced staff back in-house.
- Heidi Alexander, Transport Secretary, said `I cannot make a promise that we can bring them down in the short term, because we have to run a financially sustainable railway`, highlighting funding pressures and no new money in the spending review.
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caithness-business.co.ukGreater Anglia is latest train operator to be nationalised
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Gazette-NewsEverything you need to know about Greater Anglia as it is nationalised
Greater Anglia’s trainlines will be transferred to public ownership this weekend, joining half of the UK's rail operators in nationalisation.
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