Steve Shaw - 08 Jul 17 - 02:12 PM

What a pity Shaw that the figures do not match your assertions and your opinions.

"Passenger Focus looked at frequency of UK trains versus those in seven other European countries, it found Britain had the most frequent service in the short and longer distance bands (we were third in the medium band).
Government spending is another. There are estimates that, despite privatisation, public funding of the railways is three times more than it was under British Rail – in real terms. Some claim the figure is even higher.
Even the government's own figures show public funding has ballooned from £2.3bn in 1993-4 to £5.2bn in 2008-9 (and both figures are at 2008-9 prices, too). A funny kind of privatisation.

When Passenger Focus looked at fares in the UK against other European countries, it found Britain's tickets to be both the cheapest (longer distance advance tickets) and the most expensive (long distance walk-up return tickets).