Recent content by yorksrob

Only after the rest of us get our railcard !

Ok, perhaps I worded it wrong. I'm not specifically committed to a two tier walk on fares structure. Instead the cheaper tier should be the default.

Well, we must definitely keep regulation and as for fares being a product of Government policy, isn't that the whole issue ? In terms of your fares example, "off-peak" merely means the affordable level of fares. Surely you wouldn't agree to a reform getting rid of that ? If we want meaningful...

Well at the moment, we have the high fares and the delays. Even if labour manage to resolve the industrial disputes it will be a step forward. In terms of new trains, we might not get both option one and option two, but either are better than option 3.

You can build new trains, keep old trains on or get rid of them without replacing them. The first two options are both better than the last one, which we've had too much of recently.

Passengers will want fares "fixed" i.e. lower or at least controlled.

I'm glad they're addressing the premature withdrawal of rolling stock.

Ah, but I didn't say keep the fares system in aspic. I said commit to fares regulation and keep off-peak. Actually, I think we need more fares regulation not less - an open return between Leeds and manchester seems to haven got ludicrously expensive these days. I'm already expected to pay full...

Well, I suppose part of it comes down to people like us making sure its on the agenda. On the plus side they've said that they've got "no plans" to close ticket offices - so one would hope that any changes that do take place are less precipitous than last year's fiasco.

The first one, yes that will likely be a loss and a sad one at that. The second one, there's nothing to say the new, more harmonised railway will carry through LNER's abolition of off-peak.

A passenger standards authority holding the railway to account is a good idea. Of course, it would depend on what teeth it has, however given there's clearly no one performing this role now, anythings likely to be an improvement (see various threads detailing the slide in customer service)...

Cheers. You'd have thought they'd be more difficult to forge.

There's nothing remotely pie in the sky about it. They're not actually proposing to renationalise anything in the traditional sense, just not re-privatise franchises as they expire.

Their 158's are still pretty decent. Probably only need a re-trim.

Have the Scots moved to plastic bank notes yet ?