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Originally Posted by Damien

It's the incompetence and lack of responsibility that's the problem, rather than profiteering. There isn't real competition on the railways, people rarely have the choice to travel via another provider, so a company wins the franchise and if they can do just enough to avoid it being taken back early they have little incentive to do much better.

And the price of tickets even when one books in advance can be pretty pricey to say the least plus in some areas commuters are treated worse then cattle going for slaughter as plenty of trains are dangerously overcrowded.