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Thats alot lower than UK train subsidies, alot: total rail subsidy for 2022-23 will be £11 billion, down from the first two years of COVID (£17.6 billion and £13.3 billion for 2020-21, 2021-22 respectively) but up from before the pandemic (£4.7 billion and £6.8 billion for 2018-19 and 2019-20)

Staff are a huge cost, clearly not the only factor but one that is often ignored when looking at the cost of UK train tickets. Think about air travel, not totally unionised, staffed according to needs (very safely) and often an incredibly cheap way to travel.

We have the most over staffed railway network in Western Europe. This is why fares are so high. I was greeted by 6 staff at notts station this morning at the automated ticket barriers. Standing around doing f**k all. The unions will have insisted on these staffing levels for “passenger safety” 😂