Rail commuters are used to an uncomfortable journey to work, but today was something else. Passengers were told to avoid the country’s busiest station, Waterloo, after a points failure and a train derailment, a Tube station had to be evacuated during the morning rush hour, and to cap it all, a train hit the buffers at London’s King’s Cross.
So it was a less than auspicious moment for the Government to announce that rail fares for millions of passengers will go up by 3.6% from next January, the biggest rise in five years.