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What is different now compared to before? Fares have increased faster than inflation, trains are overcrowded, the seats are a lot more cramped, just as worn and
by willyt 6y ago
What is different now compared to before? Fares have increased faster than inflation, trains are overcrowded, the seats are a lot more cramped, just as worn and dirty, no faster than before and the sandwiches are still as bad as the ones you get in petrol stations.
- mhh__ 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Great_Britain#/media/File:GBR_rail_passengers_by_year_1830-2015.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G... Make of this trend what you will.
- willyt 6y agoIncreased car ownership causes congestion which makes travelling by car impractical for long journeys and increased house prices force people to commute from further out?
- gsnedders 6y ago> Fares have increased faster than inflation Fare increases have vastly slowed (versus inflation) since British Rail. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vAlCWxoV1NYC&lpg=PA277&pg=PA277#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vAlCWxoV1NYC&lpg=PA277&p... shows average annual fare increase and RPI for the last 14 years of British Rail. Over the last ten years of BR, fares increased 102% versus RPI of 62% (thus increasing 25% in real terms based on RPI; CPI didn't exist till the final five years of BR). Over the past ten years, fares have increased 40% versus RPI of 31% (thus increasing 7% in real terms based on RPI, or 16% based on CPI).
- willyt 6y agoMost of the increases were during the tenure of a government that wanted to privatise the railways and believed they should be self funded and obviously would not want these price rises to occur once the railways were privatised.