Private firms that lease out trains for Britain’s railway have seen their profits treble in a year, with more than £400m paid in dividends, official figures show.

The rolling stock companies paid out a total of £409.7m to shareholders and profit margins rose to 41.6% in 2022-23, according to the Office of Rail and Road, as the rest of the railway was told to make swingeing cuts and salaries were frozen. Taxpayer subsidies are still running at twice pre-pandemic levels.

Nationalise them all. Then subsidised the shit out of them, build new tracks build new stock. Fuck it let’s party like 1840. (I know railways weren’t nationalised then).

Also railways should own the land around the station.

Also the government should own downtown. But both of those are different matters.