Split ticketing and long-distance rolling stock are still issues to be addressed
YOU are right to highlight in your leader the fact that "the UK has the highest train fares in Europe, with some UK tickets almost 10 times the price of equivalent fares on the Continent" ("Rail passengers deserve better", The Herald, January 3).
YOU are right to highlight in your leader the fact that \"the UK has the highest train fares in Europe, with some UK tickets almost 10 times the price of equivalent fares on the Continent\" (\"Rail passengers deserve better\", The Herald, January 3).
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It was the late rail strategist Sir Wilfrid Newton who cannily observed that when heading London Underground, his job was to transport six million commuters "who don't really want to travel, at a time they don't want to leave, to a place they don't want to go to ... in conditions they find uncomfortable, and at fares they think too high. And that's on a good day."
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Split ticketing and long-distance rolling stock are still issues to be addressed
YOU are right to highlight in your leader the fact that "the UK has the highest train fares in Europe, with some UK tickets almost 10 times the price of equivalent fares on the Continent" ("Rail passengers deserve better", The Herald, January 3).
It was the late rail strategist Sir Wilfrid Newton who cannily observed that when heading London Underground, his job was to transport six million commuters "who don't really want to travel, at a time they don't want to leave, to a place they don't want to go to ... in conditions they find uncomfortable, and at fares they think too high. And that's on a good day."
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