UK: closing ticket offices, cutting services, carriages crumbling, blind people falling off platforms, all while raising ticket prices.
Meanwhile Germany and France:
@afewbugs all of this is Government policy. Since COVID the government wants sign off on all costs and is using this power to cut service. Fares also go to the gov hence the hikes and reduction in discounting.
The rail sale last year was heavily limited in both discounts and validity. The Treasury was fighting to prevent even that.