British Fail: How to Fix Our Broken Train System

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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With workers on strike and services cancelled, why are Britain’s railways such a mess? And how can they be fixed? Tom Haines-Doran, research fellow at Leeds University and author of Derailed: How to Fix Britain’s Broken Railways, joins Ros Taylor to discuss the problems with the UK’s train system, and what needs to happen for our railways to get back on track. “Once a new Prime Minister is in place we could see a lot more strike action take place.” “The Government has deliberately shifted the cost of running the railways onto passengers.” “It’s extraordinary the Government would put up prices 13% after a year of turmoil on the railways.” “Railway workers really do have some power.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a Bunker t-shirt: https://bit.ly/3zFSySB Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Additional sound effects from www.zapsplat.com and AlienXXX via Freesound.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.0	Fill it in and you're in with a chance for winning a t-shirt. Why are Britain's railways such a mess? Why is it so hard to buy a
1:30.6	ticket to know when you can use that ticket to know how to claim when the train is late.
1:35.6	With me to answer those questions is Tom Haynes Duran, a research fellow in transport systems at the
1:41.2	University of Leeds. He's the author of Derealed how to fix
1:44.8	Britain's Broken Railways. Welcome to the bunker Tom. Hello, thanks for having me. Can I
1:50.7	tell you about a train journey that I wanted to make last weekend?
1:53.6	Yeah. I promised not to go on for too long.
1:56.6	I got to Victoria Station and I found that the trains to the place I wanted to go
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