Why Are UK Train Tickets SO Expensive?
Why are train tickets in the UK so expensive? In this short explainer video, we cover the top ten things that answer that question – and some of them are surprising!
Questions:
(00:00) Intro
(00:08) No. 1 What are the railway’s main sources of income?
(00:30) No. 2 How much subsidy do the railways need?
(01:39) No. 3 Who controls fares?
(02:25) No. 4 Why not just reduce the price of fares?
(03:26) No. 5 But they did it in Scotland!
(04:55) No. 6 How do rail fares in the UK compare to Europe?
(06:05) No. 7 Surely train tickets used to be cheaper?
(07:47) No. 8 What can be done?
(09:07) No. 9…
The skinny
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