The UK’s rail services are set for a huge overhaul after the first train operators to be renationalised were named. But what does it mean for passenger services? The first train operators were revealed in the ‘shake-up’ of the UK’s railways after the government passed a new law allowing it to bring the train firms back into public ownership.

SWR will come under state ownership in May, followed by C2C and Greater Anglia in July and autumn 2025, respectively.

South Western Railway will be the first rail operator renationalised by the Labour government, according to reports. Labour has pledged to renationalise rail services as operator franchises come to an end,