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Rail track is owned by network rail. Under the government but run privately.
Stations are run by train companies.
Trains used to be owned by banks. And rented to train companies. Not sure its still banks. But def rented from a privrate company.
So this would start to see arenationalised network rail (minor changes to how its run basically) renationalisation of stations as contracts to run them expire. They already belong to government/nation
And renationalisation of routes as contracts run out. Renting the same trains the current companies rent. Of course currently those companies have to kit out the trains themselves. They literally rent empty carriages. So its likely the renationalised company will have to consider that.