Hundreds of DfT civil servants to be moved to state-owned rail operator

Department says no redundancies as a result but sources believe jobs will go in push to cut posts and overhaul railways

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

Ministers have been pushing to find savings from 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).