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Hello, I'm Simon Calder, welcoming you to my independent travel podcast, bringing you the latest on

travelling, whether you're just dreaming of a great escape or maybe on a great rail adventure.

Today, I am going to be looking at train travel in the UK.

Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at

independent.com.uk, forward slash newsletters. Every Wednesday, I get the latest figures from the Department

for Transport on travel transport

since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which they carbon data as being the 1st of March 2020.

And these figures are always interesting and sometimes alarming. Well, during November, for example, rail use, relative to the same month in 2019, was just 70%. That is really serious because, well, the Treasury has been basing its plans on the usual situation, which is that they might chuck in

five billion pounds a year, and the fair paying passenger chucks in 10 billion pounds a year,

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