Transport Secretary gives update on train fares for next year View Image

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said she has not made a decision about train fares for next year, ahead of the nationalisation of a third rail company by the Labour Government. Greater Anglia, which is operated by the Transport UK Group and runs trains in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, is to be taken into public ownership on Sunday.

It is the seventh of 14 train operating companies that will form passenger services under Great British Railways – an upcoming public sector body that will oversee Britain’s rail infrastructure and train operation. Ms Alexander visited Norwich train station on Thursday, where she viewed a train with a ‘Great British Railways – coming soon’ sticker on

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