What is different now compared to before? Fares have increased faster than inflation, trains are overcrowded, the seats are a lot more cramped, just as worn and dirty, no faster than before and the sandwiches are still as bad as the ones you get in petrol stations.
Over the last ten years of BR, fares increased 102% versus RPI of 62% (thus increasing 25% in real terms based on RPI; CPI didn't exist till the final five years of BR).
Over the past ten years, fares have increased 40% versus RPI of 31% (thus increasing 7% in real terms based on RPI, or 16% based on CPI).
Most of the increases were during the tenure of a government that wanted to privatise the railways and believed they should be self funded and obviously would not want these price rises to occur once the railways were privatised.
Increased car ownership causes congestion which makes travelling by car impractical for long journeys and increased house prices force people to commute from further out?
