Labour plans to abolish Network Rail | TheBusinessDesk.com

Labour plans to abolish Network Rail The Labour Party will scrap Network Rail as part of its plans to hand over running of the railways to a new Great British Railways (GBR) body. Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh was quoted in the Sunday Times as saying: “Network Rail has had to contend with maintaining aged infrastructure across a deeply fragmented rail system, where incentives are not property aligned. Network Rail will be abolished.” Labour plans to create a new Great …