Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure

Re:Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure by hexbin010 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:48AM (#45917123)

Many operators do an "operator-specific, 10/20p cheaper" ticket because it means they receive 100% of the revenue, rather than just a portion of it. That's exactly what TPE are doing in this instance.

That practice should have been abolished long ago - it's totally anti-passenger.

GBR will likely solve this with removing the cheaper ticket, instead of making the cheaper ticket a generic ticket, of course :-)

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Re:Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure by martinald on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:42PM (#45917936)

Let's see. I don't know how far they will go with this - are they going to have LNWR the same price as "Avanti" for example, despite one being twice as fast?

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Re:Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure by hexbin010 on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:20AM (#45924113)

Not quite but that fare is such an anomaly, I can see its price being hiked a fair bit, or it replaced entirely with singles-only, which is effectively a massive price rise as we've seen the Gov do with LNER. I'm actually surprised it's lasted this long.

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Re:Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure by rsynnott on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:09AM (#45926377)

It’s fairly common in many countries to price discriminate between slow regional and fast intercity routes, even where provided by the same company.

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