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First Capital Connect

I much enjoyed my train journeys and conversations with the hon. Lady, although we did not talk about railways at the time. Nationalising the railways would save vast amounts of public and private money; all the money that is being shovelled into the maintenance and construction side and the train-operating side, and the £1 million profit that goes to the chief executive, would become part of a nationalised system. There would not be those operations. British Rail ran cash-limited operations, and it saved vast sums of public money. I would like to speak for much longer, but I have taken more than my time, and many others hon. Members want to speak. I ask my hon. Friend the Minister seriously to consider taking not only First Capital Connect's franchise, but all the franchises back into the public sector to recreate a national railway system that we can all be proud of and which we can all use every day.