British commuters are subsidising foreign railways to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year, campaigners claimed yesterday. State-owned operators in Germany, France and the Netherlands are said to transfer home their profits from UK rail services, helped by taxpayer subsidies and higher fares than in their own countries. Christian Wolmar, an industry expert, said successive UK governments had invited in ‘European wolves’ who were ‘chomping away at the carcass of our railway system’.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 03:18:29 +0000
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