Will the ConDems rein in the Rail Companies? Will they heck!
Lovely Pic Courtesy Telegraph.
Telegraph Reports – ‘In the final three months of 2012, passenger revenue in Britain rose to £1.96 billion, an increase of 8.3 per cent on the same period a year earlier and the highest quarterly figure on record.
More than half of this income came from travellers in London and the South-East, where commuters who rely on rail services to get to work have been hit particularly hard by fare rises.
Train operators earned 21.5p for each mile a passenger travelled on the railways in the three-month period.
At the same time trains became more over-crowded, with 385 million passenger journeys made between October and December last year, an increase of 14 million on 2011, official figures from the Office of Rail Regulation showed’
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