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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by jokethrowaway on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:38AM (#27219830)
Everything is more expensive in the UK - salaries are higher too, compared to Europe.
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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ClumsyPilot on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:48AM (#27221818)
London might be a beacon, but UK has the poorest regions in Western Europe. In fact some ex-soviet countries do better

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by iso1631 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:22AM (#27220224)
Train fares aren't (although the tax payer in France pays far more for train services -- services which are pretty rubbish compared with the UK.

Compare somewhere like Lesparre (population about 5,000 and 40 miles from Beudeux), which has about 10 trains a day taking 90 minutes.

With Cononley (25 miles out of Leeds) with 4 trains in each direction the next hour.

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