{"id":946445,"date":"2026-05-08T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/946445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:35:15","slug":"great-western-railway-to-be-renationalised-by-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/946445\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Western Railway to be renationalised by end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GWR&#8217;s services, which run from Taunton, Bristol, Gloucester and other major stations across the West and South Wales, will come under the control of the government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4r18jdjp8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Great British Railways<\/a> organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen Godwin, mayor for the West of England Combined Authority, welcomed the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We deserve four trains an hour at stations across our growing regional rail network,&#8221; she said, adding: &#8220;We&#8217;ll continue working with partners to deliver the infrastructure needed to make that ambition a reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GWR has been running trains across the south-west of England since 1833, with the first line built between Bristol and London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several rail operators are already publicly owned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8ex8928dg7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including Greater Anglia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgdv4nzvk2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Western Railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GWR&#8217;s services, which run from Taunton, Bristol, Gloucester and other major stations across the West and South Wales,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-946445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116539931362280134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}