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« on: Yesterday at 16:13:34 »
https://www.statista.com/statistics/305021/national-rail-revenue-passenger-fares-in-the-united-kingdom/

Annual Rail fare income back up to £10.3 billion last year.  Heidi Alaexander looks forward to the £150 million that she expects to be saved by Nationalisation in the press this morning. That's around 1.4%.  Whilst every penny counts, I can't help wondering if this is a lot of hype about a relatively small saving when fares have gone up - officially - by 4.6% this year and tweaks to things like advance fare allocations have, I would suspect, resulted in a somewhat greater increase.

On the other side, has anyone quantified the one off costs of Nationalisation and setting up GBR▸ (Great British Railways), and how do they compare to the £150 million which is - however - an annual figure?  How much will the Nationalised GBR and TOCs▸ (Train Operating Company) be paying to private companies to hire rolling stock next year?
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