{"id":700103,"date":"2026-07-19T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:11:11","slug":"merseyrail-to-be-brought-back-into-public-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700103\/","title":{"rendered":"Merseyrail to be brought back into public control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merseyrail trains will be brought back into public control when the current concession ends in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is to take over the transport operation and work will now begin on forming plans ahead of the existing contract ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said public ownership is &#8220;deliverable, achievable and secures the best option for securing strategic control&#8221; of the network, while allowing the combined authority to set services to suit communities rather than for profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam Robinson, leader of Liverpool Council and a former railway employee, said: &#8220;Merseyrail&#8217;s coming home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Public ownership of the network would work alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly50knkdwko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the move to bring buses back in house<\/a> which will begin in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since March, work has been taking place to assess legal requirements, financial implications and operating models in partnership with the Department for Transport, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merseyrail trains will be brought back into public control when the current concession ends in 2028. The Liverpool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}