The new Labour government has made no secret of its plans to press ahead with rail nationalisation - but will these changes impact Greater Anglia passengers?

The government confirmed it was going ahead with its rail privatisation plans in last week's King's Speech, but experts think Greater Anglia is unlikely to be one of the first companies targeted.

The Bill is expected to become law towards the end of the year - by which time Greater Anglia should be in the last two years of its five-year contract signed with the previous government.

And Greater Anglia is seen as one of the most successful rail operators - the government is unlikely to see its nationalisation as a priority.

Christian Wolmar is a transport writer and a former Labour candidate. He said: "There are two changes to the law that are needed to privatising all the companies.

"As it stands the government can only take over a company if it is seen to be failing, which Greater Anglia certainly isn't - that law will be changed in due course but I don't think those who are seen as reasonably successful will be a top target."

One concern is that after nationalisation Greater Anglia's relatively-new fleet could be split up and dispersed to other parts of the country.

Both Mr Wolmar and officials from Greater Anglia feel that is unlikely - the Swiss-built Intercity and regional trains are maintained at a dedicated engineering centre in Norwich and the commuter trains are operated by many other companies anyway.

Greater Anglia is now owned by Transport UK, a management buyout that took over the services when Dutch-owned Abellio pulled out of the UK after the pandemic. 

Big changes have been in the pipeline since before that deal was done - and it is understood that senior management from the company are prepared to work with the government to ensure nationalisation benefits passengers and staff.