It's not so much more trains as less network - and even more damaging, less flexible network. In many places four tracks have been reduced to two, or double track reduced to single line , all in the name of saving on maintenance. Not to mention ripping up alternative routes........cough...
Good for you - and I'm really pleased to get that reply. If you felt there was any implied criticism in my post (and tbh I suppose there was) I withdraw it unreservedly. The railways aren't the only shambolic organisation that leaves usually its lowest paid employees out on the front line to...
......and not a word of praise for the booking clerk who spent a long time trying to sort out the problem for you, and eventually succeeding through his/her persistence. Victorian levels of customer service thankfully still with us it seems.