Train Price Hike

[BlueRon7]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4790732/Train-fares-set-rise-4-biggest-price-hike-years.html

So the government want to stop people from driving and luring the brightest and the best to the UK.. how is this helping!? we should be investing more in our Rail service not less. It's one of the great British institutions that we should be proud of.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Apparently the train operators can hike it in line with the RPI (Retail Prices Index) cant see them going much below 3.5% if that is the case.

Getting in and out of London these days is a complete joke, allegedly 97% of all profits go back into the infrastructure, that's a load of bollocks as far as I am concerned.. !

 

[bluetonium]

Already cheaper for me to drive and park in Manchester than get a return ticket to Piccadilly. As for a family day out, not even worth considering which is a huge shame as the kids love the idea of the train.

Though recently I noticed that the trains on our local line have been upgraded, we now have carriages a decade old instead of three decades old. Still the compulsory brown fish in the toilet though.

 

[BimboBob]

I drive everywhere unless it's into London which is a woman to get anywhere near in a car.

 

[Bill Walker]

We were going to use trains on our recent holiday to England

Till we saw the prices

 

[BlueRon7]

A lot of trains don't even have plugs FFS.

Shove it up their ***.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Any time return from Manchester to London (source Trainline) £484 - first class. Week in Spain including flight £585 4star hotel flights included.


Its a joke

 

[mat]

Apparently the train operators can hike it in line with the RPI (Retail Prices Index) cant see them going much below 3.5% if that is the case.

Getting in and out of London these days is a complete joke, allegedly 97% of all profits go back into the infrastructure, that's a load of bollocks as far as I am concerned.. !

It is.

It goes to shareholders in dividends.

Rail privatisation is the biggest legal money laundering scan in the UK. Front line staff, trackworkers, station improvements, train maintenance are all cut year on year to improve profit and individual bonus for directors/managers.

I predict a major railway passenger incident soon which will be as big as Grenfell and it will be the staff on trial not the directors of TOCs or Network Rail.

 

[york away to this!]

Trains. I just don't see the points...

 

[RandomJ]

It really is getting to the point where you go to work so you can afford to go to work. Ridiculous train fares, petrol prices, every town and city having rip off car parking etc etc