Why are the UK’s trains so expensive? – City Monitor
Fares have increased by a fifth in real terms since privatisation, along with demand for rail travel.
Jonny Ball
The price of British rail travel is a near-constant bugbear of daily commuters and occasional passengers alike. It’s not uncommon for travel between Britain’s largest cities to be cheaper by flight than by train. At the time of writing, a one-way ticket from London to Edinburgh, purchased on the day of travel, costs £126. The same one-way journey by plane, also purchased on the day, costs just £83.
