![]() ![]() ![]() Ironically, some companies introduced through privatisation are state owned. Train travel is already unreliable it will get worse.ĭo British passengers effectively subsidise European rail travel? Yes. The numbers haven’t recovered, but the government’s talking about cutting rail spending. At one point during the pandemic, passenger numbers dropped to 1872 levels. And the government refuses to invest properly. Why are our costs so high? It’s the mess of our system: too many companies, arguing over who should be fined if a train is late. During the pandemic, rolling stock companies have paid out a billion pounds to their shareholders. Rolling what? Rolling stock companies own the physical trains and lend their “sets” out to operators. The rolling stock companies are a scandal. When you’re standing on a platform, you don’t have consumer choice. The government is quite ideologically driven … Absolutely. ![]()
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