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They used to have exactly such barriers at Charing Cross.

The existing network outside of the SE serves where it serves. Having affordable/dicounted fares will clearly increase ridership in these markets. 1787812088 Ditto everywhere else. I couldn't afford to run a car and I live in Yorkshire.

Excellent news that they're getting the seat back tables.

There is the fact that if there is a better train service, people are more likely to use it. 1787745414 The Northern Explorer (as an example) doesn't sufficiently achieve those aims - it doesn't even cover the geographical area, let alone all the services in it. Advance purchase is at the...

Have you ever stopped to consider why travel is so heavily skewed towards the South East ? Working age people outside of the South East simply don't have access to the level of railway service that those in the South East already do. Admittedly, that geographical reality isn't going to change...

Well, it wouldn't do much to provide a public transport network as comprehensive as that in London and the South East. It would, however do plenty good in providing affordable public transport to residents in the regions. 1787675837 This is the tail wagging the dog - public services need to...

I think that your calculation is flawed. For example, it's recognised that deprived communities have greater health needs that cost the taxpayer more to alleviate. It doesn't follow that greater expenditure or subsidy on health in those areas is considered a fair outcome in itself. Fairness...

You'd just be replacing one iniquity with another in that case. 1787642486 That pre-supposes that that 12% only travels in the South East, and only travels at peak times (which obviously won't be the case). Trying to compartmentalise people into who travels in what region at what time you end...

We have a subsidy of £11 billion a year. In that context, even £300,000,000 is less than half of the 7% reduction in subsidy last year (assuming my maths is correct). Put it another way, if it had been introduced last year, it would have taken less than half a year of industry efficiencies to...

It's difficult to come up with an exact figure without knowing what the costs would be. All I can do is bench mark against similar countries and I note that many seem to have far more generous schemes than the railcard being proposed here. If they can afford it, we can afford. Plus, you said...

It's not the first time rail has had bad runs of incidents. I was using trains around the time Clapham and Purley happened. Also Ladbrook Grove, Hatfield, Potters Bar etc. People still need to travel by train after these worse periods. Cost of living quick wins need to be long enough to fit...

It's true. I do sometimes get caught up in problems, but given the amount of time I spend on trains it's to be expected. Friends and family who are occasional travellers seem to get it worse.

As I've said many times before, Government needs to look at where the wealth's going, starting with the balance of payments deficit. Energy and housing are structural issues that will need long term change. A national railcard would be an eye-catching quick win (which is also needed...

The railway has an obligation to maximise revenue and minimise its financial burden on the taxpayer - within the political parameters set by society via the Government. Government subsidises the railway for various reasons, and with an increasing cost of living crisis, "fairness" and...

Various aspects of Northern (and TPE for that matter) are considerably better than even a few years ago - that's involved improving various staffing/rolling stock issues (precisely the things that need sorting out on XC).

In other areas where society has determined that "free at the point of delivery" is optimal (health, education) this has tended to be applied universally, rather than to particular groups. The point about revenue collection and processing is relevant to this as those costs only tend to go if...

This line keeps getting trotted out, even though there are many good value walk on fares within the South East and poor value ones outwith. This is even before we consider that wages in the South East are on average higher than elsewhere in the country, so Northern travellers might not have...

You don't have one. But you can console yourself with discounted travel all over the south east.

Other non SE regions are available. If my statement is "demonstrably false" please inform me of where I may obtain my national railcard so I can access the sort of discounts every other demographic seems to have access to.

As opposed to the status quo which seems to be "give everyone else a discount and make working age Northerners pay for it".