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Originally Posted by Stuart
Or travel by train at a time of day when the Virgin rail company tells you you can, and charges you a king's ransom for the privilege? Oh wait... They do..
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Not even remotely similar. And, talking of Virgin, they managed to do something BR never did - run 125mph tilting trains on the west coast main line, on a radically different pricing model that allows you to go from the centre of Glasgow to the centre of London in under 4 hours, for less than £30 return.
The National Bus Company faced no competition in its pricing or timetabling. The inevitable consequences of this were timetabling that was at the convenience of the company, and pricing used as a fig leaf for its operating inefficiencies rather than dealing with them.
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Assuming they aren't operating as a cartel, and are actually competing.
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In the absence of
evidence of that sort of criminality, that is a reasonable assumption.
