Comments for Bring Back British Rail https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org the collective voice of disgruntled rail passengers and disheartened train company employees, calling for a unified national rail network run for people not profit Wed, 29 May 2013 20:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Comment on Merchandise by bringbackbritishrail https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/merchandise/#comment-149317 bringbackbritishrail Wed, 29 May 2013 20:50:27 +0000 http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/?page_id=415#comment-149317 Hi Nick, our logo is deliberately pointing backwards! it’s a pun. get it?! nice idea with the fridge magnets though, we’ll bear that in mind.

]]> Comment on Bring Back British Rail partners The Spirit of ’45 by Colin Mills https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/2013/03/bring-back-british-rail-partners-with-spirit-of-45/#comment-141255 Colin Mills Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:45:38 +0000 http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/?p=461#comment-141255 Richard Beeching did more harm than Guy Fawkes – know what I mean?

]]> Comment on Merchandise by nick kay https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/merchandise/#comment-140205 nick kay Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:25:06 +0000 http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/?page_id=415#comment-140205 I’m sorry to mention this to you but your BR logo is the wrong way round. The logo shows two lines and two arrows pointing in the opposite direction of each other on the right. The railway is just like the road, they drive on the left hand side. Your logo shows that BR drives on the right hand side which is wrong. Sorry to be PC.
PS:- You should do fridge magnets.

]]> Comment on Comments by Bring Back British Rail https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/comments/#comment-138801 Bring Back British Rail Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:03:48 +0000 http://bringbackbritishrail.wordpress.com/?page_id=11#comment-138801 John: thanks for the comment, but as above, the logo is a symbol for our wish to return to nationalised rail. We are sorry to hear you feel it ‘smacks of amateurism’ but we believe it’s a simple way of summing up what we are about: bringing back a nationalised rail system.

]]> Comment on Comments by Bring Back British Rail https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/comments/#comment-138799 Bring Back British Rail Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:02:03 +0000 http://bringbackbritishrail.wordpress.com/?page_id=11#comment-138799 smug_alec: Thanks for your comment – and your support! This point is raised a great deal – we can only repeat that the logo is what it is, as Kim Jong suggests below, because we hope to ‘return’ to a nationalised system. It’s an inversion of the BR logo for exactly that reason.

]]> Comment on Comments by John Smith https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/comments/#comment-138025 John Smith Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:57:43 +0000 http://bringbackbritishrail.wordpress.com/?page_id=11#comment-138025 I agree, Alec – the use of the reversed BR logo makes no sense at all, and smacks of amaterism.

I guess there may be a copyright issue though as the BR logo is currently owned by National Rail? But still…

]]> Comment on New Merchandise! by DAVID CLEMINSON https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/2011/11/new-merchandise-now-available/#comment-136843 DAVID CLEMINSON Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:00:55 +0000 http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/?p=420#comment-136843 Railway Season Ticket Prices
(Source: Daily Mail – 6 February, 2012)

UK – Woking (Surrey) to London, 22 miles, £3,268
FRANCE – Ballancourt-sur-Essone to Paris, 24 miles, £924
GERMANY – Strausberg to Berlin, 21 miles, £705
SPAIN – Collado-Villalba to Madrid, 22 miles, £653

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097089/Britains-railways-expensive-comfortable-efficient-Europe.html

Public Subsidy to Rail Networks as % GDP
Germany 0.497
France 0.330
UK 0.326
Spain 0.205

The level of public subsidy in France & the UK are virtually the same yet the season ticket price in France is less than a third of for a similar distance in England
NB. Of the above, the UK alone operates a completely privatised rail network.
Since privatisation the level of subsidy provided to UK train operators has TRIPLED.

]]> Comment on Comments by James Porter https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/comments/#comment-133934 James Porter Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:10:20 +0000 http://bringbackbritishrail.wordpress.com/?page_id=11#comment-133934 In British Rail days it cost about a quarter of an average weekly wage to travel from West Yorkshire to London and return, it now cost about three quarters. The state provides massive subsidies to private TOCs who pocket millions of tax payers money while pushing up fare levels beyond the reach ordinary people. For a family of four to walk onto Leeds station and book to London would cost up to £900: they could go on a package holiday to Europe for that price. We have the most expensive rail system in Europe and the most fragmented. I am a life long railway enthusiast and believe we need to re-establish the concept of a rail network with each element supporting the other and when a rail ticket from A to B means by any reasonable route as it used to be. The railways should be a public service not a profit making scheme.

]]> Comment on Merchandise by Alexander Gomme https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/merchandise/#comment-129623 Alexander Gomme Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:08:05 +0000 http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/?page_id=415#comment-129623 Dear,

Is it possible for non-British residents to buy the merchandise? What would be the postage to send one / a few enamel badges it to Belgium?

Thank you,
Alexander Gomme
Employee of the Belgian railways

]]> Comment on Comments by Kim Jong https://v1.bringbackbritishrail.org/comments/#comment-128713 Kim Jong Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:11:54 +0000 http://bringbackbritishrail.wordpress.com/?page_id=11#comment-128713 It’s BACK to British Rail so makes perfect sense.

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