I wonder what will happen to premium classes in the new order with GBR?
Since privatisation, the DfT has taken no interest in First Class travel or any on-train catering, leaving it entirely up to the private TOCs.
Fares and service levels are not regulated or specified, beyond possibly mandating that some sort of catering service exists.
So all the offerings are different (First, Business, Club) with different models of inclusive and paid-for services, including things like weekend upgrades.
And then there are the Standard-only TOCs.
The DfT did mandate a more equable balance between First and Standard on inter-city routes, with interior coach conversions on Virgin/Avanti, and in the way it specified IEP services.
I guess the "nationalisers" will want one system-wide setup, and maybe a Travellers-Fare-type organisation to deliver it.
Or we could just muddle on with TOC-specific offers (but who gets the revenue?).
Then there's "Gerald"...