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Revenue growth is main goal in new Great British Railways plan

ALTHOUGH the plan to create a new rail agency in England has been postponed, the intention remains to establish Great British Railways in a revised format to that originally proposed.

The new plans were revealed in the 2023 George Bradshaw lecture on February 7, by the Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper. He acknowledged there is a lot of frustration in the industry, with a determination now to end what is seen as the current period of drift, and deliver a seven-day-a-week system that is

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