ChiefPlanner
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Making Saturday a Saver rather than Super Saver day & scrapping any other cheap fares soon put pay to that. Pricing people off the railways was one thing BR was very good at although those with those rose tinted specs on in regard to privatisation conveniently overlook this fact.
Well Regional Railways was under acute pressure to basically reduce costs (and grow revenue where they could), so one off (Saturday only) seasonal services where capacity (which was once available using "spare" freight sector locomotives and other rolling stock) was not available.
Remember there were league tables for earnings per vehicle for the new 15x vehicles , which were 2 replacing 3 old ones, so the options were quite tough to say the least. Hence the demise of workings like York - Tenby and many others.