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Keir Starmer has pledged to nationalise the railways (Picture: Getty Images)In case you missed it, this week Labour leader Keir Starmer pledged that, if elected, Labour would renationalise the railways within five years of coming into power.Ownership of the British railway system has been a political hot potato for decades now. It was first nationalised (AKA, brought into public ownership) by Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1948, and later reprivatised by Conservative PM John Major in 19