South Western first train company renationalised by Labour

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The Government’s renationalisation of rail services has started as trains operated by South Western Railway (SWR) were taken into public control.    The train operator officially came under public ownership at around 2am on Sunday. The first journey, the 5.36am from Woking, was partly a rail replacement bus service due to engineering works.    Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, who travelled on the first renationalised departure from London Waterloo, said it was “a new dawn for our railways”.   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This is a watershed moment in our work to return the railways to the service of passengers and let's

00:06be honest most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about who owns what bit of the railway

00:11but they do want trains that work and they want the government to put the passenger first and not

00:18the shareholder and so as we transition the train operating companies into public ownership starting

00:25this weekend with South Western we're going to require really high standards of those regional

00:31operators around punctuality reducing the level of cancellations improving the passenger experience

00:38I'm Heidi hello nice to meet you Rhys and what's your job Rhys?

00:52I'm an MB3 and we like...

00:56Do you know what that building's called?

00:59It begins with a G does anyone know what shape is that?

01:03Does anyone know?

01:04Is there a mountain?

01:05Yeah

01:06It's green doesn't it?

01:07You've come out so far

01:08It means getting the basics right

01:14So under Great British Railways we will sweep away those decades of waste and bureaucracy

01:21and we really really will deliver great services for Britain's travelling public

01:27and we will reach out to all nations

01:32on the weekends

01:34that's one day

01:35on the weekends

01:36and the weekends

01:38and you know it's always a good town

01:39on the weekends

01:40and we have to keep across the weekends

01:41and we will start to incorporate the crowds

01:43and watch the crowds and be able to do

01:46for people on the weekends

01:48to get out of that

01:51and all of the weekends

01:52we will find a good time

01:54to get out of that

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