Title: Would it be realistic to renationalise the railways? - BBC News
Headings: Would it be realistic to renationalise the railways?
Would it be realistic to renationalise the railways?
Nationalisation of the railways
Rail services around the world
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Content: Supporters argue that this messy system is delivering. Since privatisation, passenger journeys have shot up from 761 million passengers in 1995/96 to 1.58 billion in 2013/14. Passenger statistics are doing well in comparison with Europe too. Since 2008 the UK has seen a 17% growth in passenger kilometres, the second highest behind Austria. Rail services around the world
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Canada - nationalised, run by VIA Rail Canada, though many of the train lines used are owned by private freight companies
France - nationalised, run by SNCF
Germany - nationalised, Deutsche Bahn, but regional transport authorities are responsible for tendering local train services
Italy - nationalised, run by Trenitalia, but runs on a similar local level as Germany
Japan - mainly privately owned, though the high-speed Shinkansen lines and some smaller lines are still publicly-funded
US - passenger services state run by Amtrak, but it operates in part on privately-owned train lines
On the other hand, subsidy has grown. A 2013 report for the Tr