This from Captain Deltic...
I note that ATOC's Michael Roberts has a letter published in the Pink 'Un today, in which he says:
Your article �Network Rail lays out �37bn spending plans� (January 9) states that the �average rail fare has risen 40 per cent in the past decade�.
Rather than taking an average of all the prices that were advertised, looking at tickets people actually purchased reveals that between 2001-02 and 2011-12, the average price paid by passengers for a single journey expressed at 2011-12 prices fell by 1.9 per cent, hovering round �5 through that period. That is down to train companies working to attract passengers by offering a range of good value fares, including cheap advance tickets and Railcard deals.
So, the average cost of a journey between 2001-02 and 2011-12 'hovered around �5'.
Yet another case of Year Zero statistical legerdemain.
In 1991-92, with the recession biting the average fare, at 2011-12 prices, was er... �4.30.
And while passenger journeys have increased by just over 80% over the same period, subsidy per journey is still 50% more than in 1991-92!
Proof positive of the triumph of privatisation?
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