The Mayor of Liverpool has unveiled plans to renationalise Merseyrail.

Mayor Steve Rotheram is presenting a report to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority next week, which recommends that the present concession held by Transport UK Group and Serco Group should not be renewed.

Liverpool is working to follow the examples of TfL and the Bee Network in Manchester, with all transport modes working as one network, under common management.

Steve Rotheram said: ‘Since becoming Mayor, I’ve been determined to build a transport network that works better for the people who rely on it every day - one that's easier to use, better connected and designed around passengers.

‘We've already introduced the country's first publicly owned train fleet in a generation, delivered new rail stations, taken back control of our buses, rolled out tap-and-go ticketing and started laying the foundations for a rapid transit network.

‘Now we have the opportunity to take back control of our trains too.

‘Merseyrail is already one of the best-performing rail networks in the country and that's a credit to the people who run it every day. But the challenge now isn't simply running a successful railway – it's bringing together all the different parts of our transport network so they work as one,

‘People don't obsess about whether they are getting on a bus, a train or a ferry - they just want to get where they're going as quickly and cheaply as possible. My ambition is simple: one network, one vision, working in the interests of the 1.6 million people who call our city region home.’

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