The reason BBC» Points West were there today was in relation to a story about the annual fares increase. The Stroud Valley Line was chosen as stations on this route have some of the highest pence per mile fares in the country.
On the main bulletin this evening, Stroud's MP▸ , David Drew (Lab) was interviewed. He said that fares along this line had always been expensive. This was so, he said, pre-privatisation, pre-Beeching, and even pre-Brunel. Quite how he knew about fares pre-Brunel (which would have had to have been stagecoach fares) is beyond me.
Stagecoach been going that long? My local bus provider is Go South Coast.
Incidentally there was a member of this forum briefly featured in the same programme.