Our Railway

In the last 6 years rail fares in the UK have rocketed by 27% - that's a rise 3 times faster than the growth in wages. Some season tickets are up by over 40%. UK passengers are now paying up to 6 times more to travel by train than their European counterparts ...

Under-investment is leading to chaos for passengers. The story was that higher fares would fund investment, but vital projects to improve reliability have been delayed for years. Passengers are now paying even more to travel on overcrowded, unreliable and old trains ...

Rail privatisation has been a complete and utter disaster. Our railways are now owned by a mixture of wealthy tax dodgers and foreign companies (Ironically, most of these are publicly owned!) So every year, millions of pounds which should go on improving our railways is handed to wealthy individuals, shareholders or fills the coffers of foreign governments (which they then use to subsidise their own railways!)

Only in the UK ...

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