The Westminster government's increasing 'muscular unionism' by undermining devolution at every opportunity is not helping relations between the devolved governments and Westminster. "Great British Railways" is just one example of that, the devolved governments were not even consulted on how it would work or affect rail services in Scotland & Wales before the initial Williams-Shapps plan was published.
So, to be clear:-
A railway company, Network Rail, is (de facto) owned by the UK Government and is controlled by the UK Government.
Rail Transport is a reserved matter in Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998 (see
here), and in section E2 of Schedule 7A of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (see
here).
Rail
franchising and passenger service subsidy is devolved in Scotland and Wales. (But nobody from the UK Government has done anything that makes any difference to the Welsh or Scottish rail franchises, or to the amount of subsidy granted to them)
The UK Government - who own and pay for and have sole responsibility for making policy for - the railway network, decide to make a policy for the railway network that they own and pay for. Part of that policy involves changing the name of the railway company they own, and using a new typeface, design guide, and ticketing website.
And because the UK Government didn't ask permission of devolved governments (who have no legal role whatsoever), before the UK Government made the policy for the thing which the UK Government has sole responsibility for, that is "muscular unionism", and "undermining devolution"????
Because presumably, the UK Government should pretend it isn't the UK Government, but is just the English Government (even though it isn't, and even though it is funded by taxation paid for by people outside of England who get to vote in elections to its Parliament)? And therefore instruct its railway infrastructure company when branding Cardiff Central, and Glasgow Central, and Edinburgh Waverley, and all the signs on bridges and level crossings, and on publicity connected to the new ticketing system when used on tickets in Scotland or Wales, and on publicity on trains contracted by the UK Government operating in Scotland or Wales either, and in train planning functions:-
a) to pretend that they are a Welsh government / Scottish government body and brand themselves using the current name of the passenger franchise in those countries; or,
b) to call themselves English Railways (because a sign at Glasgow Central saying "Welcome to English Railways" would go down
brilliantly, I'm sure, just as would the ticket booking website for someone buying a return from Aberystwyth to Welshpool being called "English Railways" go down
swimmingly).?????