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rail
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Rail Fares
From our Swindon Correspondent: From CityAM, Commuters are set to be offered flexible season rail tickets as a part…
Reverse Beeching
From our Swindon Correspondent: From the Cambridge Independent Funding of £760m has been announced to break ground on East-West…
Rail Nationalisation Costing Commuters And Taxpayers A Fortune
Remember all that talk about how rail privatisation cost us all a fortune? You know the thing, there…
In Praise Of Beeching’s Axe
From our correspondent on the M4: Trains are an extremely safe way to travel. Safe, environmentally friendly and,…
What The Driverless Car Will Really Kill Is The Rail Network
As this piece from the Conversation points out, the technology really at risk from the driverless car is…
No, The Same Flightless Bird Species Didn’t Evolve Again – But the Niche Was Filled Again
Yes, sure, allowances for having to fit a complex scientific idea into a short newspaper article for those…
British Train Ticket Prices Are Far Too Low – They Must Be Increased
A standard whinge in Britain today is that rail privatisation has failed – just look, the trains are…
The Mail Gets Confused About Inflation Rates – Quelle Surprise
Our newspapers are written by those who failed maths GCSE and thus had to make do with pursing…
Sad Piffle From The Guardian’s Helen Pidd On British Train Ticket Prices
Following the news that train ticket prices are to go up a little less than the rate of…