Go up North and you have Northern, which as well as running pacers for years (I think they're all gone now) drained funds, because running a rail network with f

Go up North and you have Northern, which as well as running pacers for years (I think they're all gone now) drained funds, because running a rail network with few passengers is expensive. That means either higher tax to subsidise it, or it means higher prices on profitable parts of the network to cross-subsidise it