Last week's Poll: Re-booting the railway

According to Paul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group, the nation will witness ‘unprecedented improvements in the railway’ with more trains, better services and improved stations during the next 18 months.

To deliver this ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ a four-point plan has been drawn up that outlines four commitments to delivering an improved rail service, including a pledge to strengthen the railway’s contribution to the economy, increase customer satisfaction, and create more jobs.

For our poll, we asked what could be done to give Britain’s rail network a reboot and nearly half (45 per cent) of the 390 respondents agreed that there must be more investment in infrastructure.

Just under a third of respondents echoed sentiments at RMT, agreeing that the railways should be re-nationalised, whilst nine per cent took the view that that should be harsher penalties for service disruption.