Date: 21/08/2011

Gloom descended as commuters found that their fares would be rising by 8 per cent in January. This followed hot on the heels of news from the Office of Rail Regulation that overcrowding was getting worse hardly a surprise for most passengers given that rail use has increased by almost half in the past decade and there are barely any extra services

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Telegraph

It was the week that the wheels all but came off Britain’s railways.