{"id":35253,"date":"2022-12-30T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35253"},"modified":"2022-12-28T18:08:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:08:52","slug":"ihbc-signpost-transport-secretary-casts-doubt-on-great-british-railways-future-as-he-looks-for-alternative-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35253","title":{"rendered":"IHBC Signpost: Transport secretary casts doubt on Great British Railways\u2019 future as he looks for \u2018alternative views\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35254\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/railway_line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/>Transport secretary Mark Harper will \u2018take some time to listen to alternative views\u2019 about how to accomplish the intention behind the government\u2019s proposed reform of the UK\u2019s railways under the new public body Great British Railways (GBR).<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>New Civil Engineer<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The decision to establish GBR was a key outcome of the William-Shapps Plan for Rail, published in May 2021, with the purpose of ending fragmentation and integrating the country\u2019s railways. The intention is for Network Rail to be absorbed into the new organisation, which will own the infrastructure, collect fare revenue, run trains and plan the network and set most fares and timetables. The package of reforms aims to ensure that Britain\u2019s railways become more customer focused and financially sustainable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/latest\/transport-secretary-casts-doubt-on-great-british-railways-future-as-he-looks-for-alternative-views-08-12-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport secretary Mark Harper will \u2018take some time to listen to alternative views\u2019 about how to accomplish the intention behind the government\u2019s proposed reform of the UK\u2019s railways under the new public body Great British Railways (GBR). image: for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35255,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions\/35255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}