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 after it passed a law last week. Labour has pledged to renationalise rail services as operator franchises come to an end,

Labour will take South Western Railway under public control next spring, marking the first step in Sir Keir Starmer’s sweeping plan to reverse 30 years of privatisation.