Hundreds of DfT staff to move to state rail operator

Hundreds of civil servants are being transferred from the Department for Transport to the state-owned rail operator as the government looks to cut posts and overhaul the railways.

- Gwyn Topham

Ministers have been pushing to find savings across the civil service, but a government spokesperson denied there would be immediate redundancies in what bosses told staff was a "critical phase" of the creation of Great British Railways (GBR).

However, industry sources believe jobs will go, as employees consider their future outside the civil service, and the government attempts to cut costs and reduce duplication in a nationalised railway.