Are German trains nationalised?

Before World War One the German railway system was a collection of different companies each serving the particular state that they were in, run autonomously to each other. In 1918 the German Empire fell, and the country became a republic. This lead to the railway system being nationalised.



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Deutsche Bahn is Germany's main railway company, owned by the German government. It started operating in 1994, as a result of combining the previous two government railway companies existing before Germany's reunification in 1990 - Deutsche Bundesbahn (in Western Germany) and Deutsche Reichsbahn.

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It was under Thatcher's successor John Major that the railways themselves were privatised, using the Railways Act 1993. The operations of the BRB were broken up and sold off, with various regulatory functions transferred to the newly created office of the Rail Regulator.

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Yes, there is a body of regulatory rules and procedures governing railroad property use and rates. But this is very different than in Europe. Overall, Europe long ago converted from private railroad companies to nationalized railways (Switzerland might be among the most notable exceptions).

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The legal identity of London Buses is London Bus Services Limited (LBSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London.

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Who owns and runs the UK's railways? Britain's rail network was first nationalised by Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1948 and then privatised again under Sir John Major's Conservatives in 1993. Network Rail, which runs railway infrastructure in England, Scotland, and Wales, is publicly owned.

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Following privatisation in 1993, British Rail – a publicly owned company responsible for running the railway – was divided into over 100 separate companies.

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The reasons for this are varied: from the privatisation of the rail industry to the rising cost of infrastructure. The UK does not have fixed rates like other European countries such as France, which can result in flight tickets being cheaper than a regional train journey in the UK.

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