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Why is it so hard to make a railway profitable?
Certainly profitable and affordable.
At the weekend they talked about how the government subsidies going down would result in fare increases of 30-40% over the next four years and were talking about lines that do the commute from Slough/Reading into London.
That's a guaranteed huge number of people travelling on your railway twice a day in blocks of several hours, five days a week, at least 50 weeks a year.
How are railways so expensive to run?