{"id":776896,"date":"2026-09-20T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776896\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:04:12","slug":"chiltern-railways-renationalised-after-30-years-as-private-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776896\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiltern Railways renationalised after 30 years as private company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chiltern Railways has been brought into public ownership after 30 years as a private company. <\/p>\n

It is the 10th rail company now under the Great British Railways (GBR), the government’s programme of public ownership<\/a>, which it says will save money and improve services. <\/p>\n

Chiltern Railways, which was privatised in 1996, operates services from London Marylebone to Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, as well as destinations in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n

The government said the transfer into public ownership would tackle overcrowding by introducing 25 additional daily services from December.<\/p>\n

The start of the first day of public ownership saw some disruption, with Chiltern warning the line between Birmingham and Marylebone, external<\/a> was “expected to be much busier” due to the late notice of the West Coast Main Line closure affecting services at London Euston. <\/p>\n

The operator said it would run more trains than usual between the stations with significantly enhanced capacity. <\/p>\n

The Department for Transport (DfT) said the additional weekday services under GBR would provide 10,000 extra seats.<\/p>\n

They would include half hourly services during weekdays on the Chiltern Main Line between London and Birmingham, as well as more weekend services. <\/p>\n

Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy met staff at Marylebone Station on Thursday alongside the first Chiltern train in the GBR livery.<\/p>\n

“The most difficult thing on Chiltern is that it’s shorter capacity and those extra trains and those extra seats will make a real difference to people travelling on this line up here from Marylebone every day,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiltern Railways has been brought into public ownership after 30 years as a private company. It is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776896","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\/776896","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=776896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}