The high price of UK train tickets

• howard mcsweeney1

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  4 January 2016     12:12289224
  #1      
  Goes some way to explain it.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35219018
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  4 January 2016     12:19289225
  #2      
  This is doing the rounds.
  
  
  

  
• Reginald Barrington

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  4 January 2016     13:11289226
  #3      
  Somewhat meaningless without some kind of net and gross baseline figures, not that that changes the fact we are getting screwed over with the above inflation hikes year on year
  Arte et Marte
• Guest 1942

  • Registered: 14 Dec 2016
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  14 December 2016     05:58322072
  #4      
  IS That Trains provide more facility then other trains so they are taking more cost for the tickets?
• Captain Haddock

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  14 December 2016     07:52322073
  #5      
  The question which you have to ask is how we pay for railways.
  
  In the EU tickets are massively subsidised by the taxpayer.
  
  So would it be a good idea to raise general taxation so somebody on a modest income in Dover, who never uses the railways, subsidises an investment banker on mega-bucks commuting to London daily, or should users pay somewhere near the true cost of the services they use?
  
  
  Total railway subsidies by country
  Country Subsidy in billions of Euros Year
  Germany 17.0 2014
  France 13.2 2013
  Italy 7.6 2012
  Spain 5.1 2015
  United Kingdom 4.5 2015
  Switzerland 4.3 2012
  Belgium 2.8 2012
  Netherlands 2.5 2014
  Austria 2.3 2009
  Denmark 1.7 2008
  Sweden 1.6 2009
  Poland 1.4 2008
  Ireland 0.91 2008
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Guest 1266

  • Registered: 8 May 2014
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  14 December 2016     09:38322075
  #6      
   Captain Haddock wrote:

  The question which you have to ask is how we pay for railways.
  
  In the EU tickets are massively subsidised by the taxpayer.
  
  So would it be a good idea to raise general taxation so somebody on a modest income in Dover, who never uses the railways, subsidises an investment banker on mega-bucks commuting to London daily, or should users pay somewhere near the true cost of the services they use?
  
  
  Total railway subsidies by country
  Country Subsidy in billions of Euros Year
  Germany 17.0 2014
  France 13.2 2013
  Italy 7.6 2012
  Spain 5.1 2015
  United Kingdom 4.5 2015
  Switzerland 4.3 2012
  Belgium 2.8 2012
  Netherlands 2.5 2014
  Austria 2.3 2009
  Denmark 1.7 2008
  Sweden 1.6 2009
  Poland 1.4 2008
  Ireland 0.91 2008

  
  
  Eventually the taxpayer will have to heavily subsidise our railways if we continue to create the majority of new jobs in Central London and the majority of new homes in the home counties.
  Jack of Hearts