Rail blogs from 2016 January
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27 January 2016
Passenger watchdog Transport Focus today published the latest round of its survey into National Rail Passenger Satisfaction. This is a bi-annual survey which goes into great detail about overall satisfaction, value for money and conditions of stations and trains.
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21 January 2016
Today the Department for Transport and Transport for London announced proposals for all sub-urban rail services to be devolved to TFL by 2021. This will be a relief to many commuters in London who have endured a shameful cocktail of delays, disruption and poor performance from train operators...
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13 January 2016
This week Gatwick Airport finally became part of the Oyster smart ticketing network after years of delays due to wrangling between the Department for Transport and Southern Rail over prices.
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02 January 2016
Today marks the day when train fares across the country increase. The Government will claim that fares have been "frozen" but whilst this is the lowest rise for 6 years this definitely isn't a fare freeze. Fares have increased by 1.1 per cent across the board meaning that since 2010 regulated...