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Rail stats don’t reveal the full number of long-distance trips

Chris Oldham, Shrewsbury SY4
28 July 2014
 

Further to my letter about the anomaly of passenger numbers declining on long-distance trains (Letters LTT 27 Jun), there is another reason for this too, in that the fare structure often makes shorter trips better value.

There are now countless examples of trips where it is significantly cheaper to re-book en route, which means that those regular long-distance travellers who are “in the know” will actually do this to save money. However, each of these would then show up in railway...

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