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Rail fares 'rise above inflation'

Average train fares have increased by more than 26% since the start of the recession, almost three times faster than wages, new research revealed today.

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Unions step up campaign to renationalise railways

With the West Coast fiasco still playing out, and with savage fare increases only a few weeks away, the campaign for renationalisation of Britain's railways is stepping up a gear.

We are fighting to reverse the reductions in jobs and investment and to end the rip-off of privatisation and halt the tidal wave of cuts in the pipeline under the Government's McNulty plans.

– RMT General Secretary Bob Crow

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