Great British Railways

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RE: Great British Railways

(20/05/2021 19:20)Mrboo Wrote:  The Gov have always set fares the full price ones.

Not quite - they set the average price for regulated fares to rise. Adult fares always rise in 10p multiples, so if the fare is £2 then the price rise is either 0% or 5%, whatever the government sets as the average figure. If the government sets the figure as 2.5% then the TOC can increase a popular £2 ticket to £2.10 and freeze another £2 ticket which doesn't sell so well. Until recently TOCs were increasing popular fares by things like 10% and reducing the cost of tickets that people rarely buy to compensate but the government stopped that practice.

Also in PTE areas the PTE sets the fare not the TOC and the PTE can also specify a higher fare increase to pay for investment and/or replace funding which has been cut back. There have been fare rises of things like 10% across the board in PTE areas before.

Another thing to remember is the government doesn't prevent TOCs changing their train times or restriction codes so that people who used to pay off-peak fares now have to pay anytime fares for the same train service. They can also add or withdraw cheaper advance or route specific tickets.