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Sunday, 12 October 2014

The Guardian

• How Dutch and German train and bus firms are taking UK taxpayers for a rideThe UK government has poured money into transport infrastructure. And thanks to privatisation, state-owned European bus and rail operators reap the benefitsJames Meeks book on the privatisation of Britain, Private Island, highlights the perverse outcome of an energy industry sell-off that saw vast tracts of our power infrastructure fall under the ownership of the French government-owned EDF. France in effect renationalised the industry its neighbour had so painstakingly privatised. Renationalised it, that is, for France, he writes.If privatisation was designed to introduce the rigor and effici...

Yorkshire Post

• Railway will be travelling back in time againTHE clocks will be turned back to the 1940s as part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s annual ‘Railway in Wartime’ weekend.

Doncaster Free Press

• Have your say on how region’s railways are policedRail passengers and staff across the region are being given the chance to have their say on the way the county’s railways are policed.