r/uktrains

I found out today that the rail service companies are slowly being nationalised.

I am a 30 year old and pay 70£ a day to get into London four days a week.

It’s exhausting that there are no subsidies for rail cards for people my age - being 30 doesn’t mean you can magically afford the high rates that keep going up!!!

If anyone knows any info around this topic would be great to discuss it. Or somehow build a group big enough who also have this issue to sign a petition to get this discussed in parliament. Tired of the daylight robbery.

Any help would be appreciated

Despite Sunderland being a major-ish city,the amount of trains it gets is pretty small compared to over places in the country with a similar amount of recognition/size/population.

The annoying thing is the train station is shared with the metro and is situated on a generally slow line which therefore makes it hard to have frequent high speed trains serve the station,
It would be nice if there was a branch from the ECML near Chester-Le-Street and or Durham so we could see easier access to HS trains

I was looking forward to the the newly refurbished valenta in the 43044 to celebrate HST day loco thrashing its way through
Biggleswade since it was on the same route the prince risborough was on stopping at all the tidily stations but still going 125 through Biggleswade

Now I find out that rail tour isn’t just happening but it doesn’t exist idek what is going apparently the only one traversing the iconic King’s Cross to York route is stupid class 86 and theirs class 43 the valenta one is only running on the poxy lines no where near anywhere i live.

Its the fastest diesel train in the world not a f*cking class 170

someone lmk please if that even exists u could prob understand my frustration as the last time I saw one at full speed was 11 years ago only saw 7 in my total lifetime at speed.

even then I’ve never seen one at max as fly through at 105 instead it’s only the lines above where they really belt it

And I’ve never seen or heard valenta it would have been the first time but if it’s not on the fast line what’s the point.

If it’s true they missed out a golden opertunity and ruined the birthday of an icon 🤦‍♂️or am I missing something

They just had us all get off our train so they can use our train as a "rescue train". Just wondering what happened considering our train was already standing-room only, that's a lot of people to have to cram onto the ones coming after.

Also, Rescue Train sounds like a good name for a movie or something 😉