Nationalised rail operator slashes fares to win back passengers

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London to Edinburgh is £20 in standard class, £40 in first, with bargains also available to and from Leeds, York and Newcastle

The nationalised train operator on the East Coast main line has cut fares to 20th-century levels in a bid to win back passengers., which runs from London King’s Cross to Yorkshire, northeast England and Scotland, has today launched a short-term promotion that undercuts most normal Advance fares.

 

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Fares are not the only problem. No way am I wearing a mask for 3 hours to London. With 9 carriage trains they could have some mask-free carriages. Those people frightened of others without masks can sit in the mask carriages. I could travel in the free ones.

Pretty miserable they're offering this during a pandemic and only to the eastern part of Britain. This government is useless. Nationalise our trains properly and charge less after the pandemic, that's what people want. NoConfidenceBojoCabinet

Pretty miserable they're offering this during a pandemic and only to the eastern part of Britain. This government is useless. Nationalise our trains and charge less after the pandemic, that's what people want. NoConfidenceBojoCabinet

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So that’s a govt admission that private rail firms are taking advantage and charging too much. What a shock.

Oh look. More evidence of things they could have done earlier and are only doing now because they are in trouble.

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