Passengers hoping to travel from King’s Cross station in the capital to Leeds on the 6.33am were told their train is cancelled “due to a shortage of train crew”.
And passengers hoping to travel around northwest England next Sunday, 18 August were warned of “very short notice cancellations”.
The three rail firms involved – Network Rail, LNER and Northern Trains – are all part of the Department for Transport (DfT). It has been a convenient narrative for Labour and the unions to blame private companies for the state of the railway.
Ms Haigh wants to bring all train operators under public control. But they are already: some rail firms are publicly owned, while for others the DfT tells private companies what services to provide and pays them a couple of per cent in return.
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