UK Rail services to come under unified state control

Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by pydry on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:06AM (#27220072)

A fair price would be a £45 return ticket London to Manchester if I bought it at 9am tomorrow at the station.

This would bring the UK rail prices more in line with most other European countries.

£300 is gouging.

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by iso1631 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:27AM (#27220257)

That's available and fine, as long as you leave Euston after 0845.

You can take the 08:46, arriving in Manchester at 12:13 - an average speed of about 60mph.

The £300 is an option that few choose, because that journey gives them major benefits. The money raised from that is plowed back into the railway and used to subsidise services to Harrogate, Holyhead and Hungerford

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ClumsyPilot on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:32AM (#27220897)

Average speed of 60 mph? Is this 18th centurely where rail competes with horse carriages?

You do realise that a country needs 21st century rail service to be competitive interbationally?

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by iso1631 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:11AM (#27221302)

You can pay a £20 premium each way to up that to about 100mph average. Competition and choice is great.

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ClumsyPilot on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:44AM (#27221756)

Quality services and products are great, choice for the sake of choice has no value.

Otherwise we would bring back bloodletting, leeches and snakeoil salesmen to get more choice in cancer treatment.

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by Camas on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:23PM (#27223215)

http://www.leeches.uk.com/

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