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RE: Arriva Rail North

(13/12/2015 20:13)Dentonian Wrote:  I don't know the full figures, but I'm sure someone in the know can find them on some DfT related website. I do know that the current Northern Rail franchise costs the highest amount per passenger journey (over £7) of all the franchises in the UK. I did see a comparison on national TV a year or two back and some of the routes into London cost barely £1 ppj. The other side of the coin is that South East rail commuters pay much higher fares per mile and I suspect the longer, faster journeys keep running costs down. Also, they almost certainly don't have free off-peak travel for Concessionaries, or very low fares to compete with commercial bus services, as happens in manchester and Leeds. They probably have more effective revenue control and I would have thought a much broader peak in terms of heavily loaded trains. However, I noticed when Richard Westcott was interviewing commuters at King's Cross at 0800 on the morning that next year's regulated fares were confirmed as capped at Inflation + 1%, the station looked nearly deserted - much like the South East's roads when the BBC do OB's in the morning rush hour!

An interesting read, couldn't we have something like that £1 pp per journey like they have in London?