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November 06, 2008 - 02:10 PM Colin Hewitt In response to Stephen Abbott, I agree that targeted railcards (e.g. Senior Citizens) are fine, but all a national card will do is deter those occasional users who will see the railways as expensive if they don’t belong to “the club”. (You can be sure that rail fares would go up to compensate for the revenue lost on the railcards – there is only so many a train can hold so revenue for a well loaded train would otherwise fall). The person with the company car will see no incentive to use the train – and is more likely to go for a budget/discounted airline internally than use the train. It would not be worthwhile for people who only make relatively short journeys. They will not see it as cost effect to buy a card and will seek alternatives as the train for local journeys will be seen as expensive to the non railcard holder. Again the issues are more rolling stock and to make train travel attractive and the BEST option. This may be e.g. high speed rail? IP : 84.143.104.27 |