Alex Cunningham MP welcomes decision to bring TPE under state control

Alex Cunningham said; “After months of travel chaos the Government have finally made the right decision by nationalising the TransPennine service. We can only imagine, however, how much chaos could have been avoided, and trips saved, if Ministers had acted sooner.

“The debacle highlights that the system of handing out contracts to private rail operators is fundamentally broken, and passengers are being failed as a result. Rather than the State acting as an “operator of last resort” there is a compelling argument not just from the months-long TransPennnine fiasco but also the East Coast Mainline, Avant and other failing services across the country, to make for our railways to brought back under public control and make the railways work for people, not profit. If the Conservative Government won’t act in the interest of passengers then an incoming Labour Government will.”