Scotland: ‘Ditch the Dutch’ video calls for full nationalisation of Scotland’s railways is ‘off track’

By Martin Williams, Senior News Reporter, The Herald; October 9, 2017

CALLS for Scotland‘s railways to be brought under “full public ownership” as early as 2019 to stop profits subsidising rail travel in Holland have fallen on deaf ears, a union says.

Transport minister Humza Yousaf is known to be preparing a public sector bid to take over Scotland’s railways, when the contract held by Dutch state-owned railway firm Abellio ends which will be 2022 at the earliest or till 2025 by mutual consent.

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