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2 WAYS TO SEND RAIL YOUR VIEWS & OPINIONS WRITE TO US: RAIL, Bauer Media, Media House, Lynchwood, Peterborough Business Park, Peterborough PE2 6EA. EMAIL US: rail@bauermedia.co.uk TICKETING Rail fares must change to reflect modern train use Christian Wolmar is right - rail fares need root and branch structural reform (RAIL 1021). A set nationwide price-per-mile is certainly the way to go, but I think we need to eliminate the exceptions for ‘peak’ services, too. The concept of managing passenger numbers on peak-hour trains with price controls is crude in the extreme, and hardly the sort of thing a Labour government - or indeed a Labour pundit - should be advocating. Price hikes on busy trains are a tax on the poor - no more, no less. And their implementation…

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