British Rail Reviews

We need them back -URGENTLY

The train companies we have are completely useless and fare prices are completely unreasonable.

I bet the French and Japanese don't pay what we do for rail travel and their train services are much better than ours. The government needs to step in and get the railways renationalised.

A London travelcard from where I live under British rail? £10 for an adult. These companies £22.00 - Its gone up by over 100%!!! Where's the justification in inflation like that? I got a single train and then drove back £55.00 for the train fare and probably around £20 in petrol by car!!!

Its time to bring back BR and get rid of these dopey money grabbing companies.

As an employee of the rail industury, one question seems to reign supreme: "Were we better off before privatisation?" My overall view is no BUT I do have major reservations about the way the system is being run. The main benefit of the old BR system is that when we had a problem on the line i.e Manchester to London I would be ...  Read the complete review

Have you tried to book a ticket over the phone lately for your rail journeys? My advice...don't bother. Things have changed. I called the booking line today, (couldn't do it over the internet because I need to take a bike with me on two networks...)no longer do you speak to a real person, you do not even have to touch ...  Read the complete review

Well, have you gathered what I think of them yet? - Advantages: It's a monopoly, so it offers a service no one else can. - Disadvantages: It's a monopoly, do they know they can get away with it., Delays. Lots of them. And then the delays use the free time created to breed more baby delays, which grow up to become BIG DELAYS., Overpriced. They use the extra cash to dream up ways of skinning you for more money.

British rail are humiliating this country. The standard of their railways and trains would not even be accepted by a tramp living on the streets. The trains are dirty, cold and not up to a satisfactory standard. You feel as if you would rather walk than pay hard earned money on a shabby train journey. Why do we pay ...  Read the complete review

I don't think it is fair to be deriding British Rail or their spawned private companies at this time. They are in a no win situation, if they let the trains run uninterrupted and thereis another accident you would not be pleased because they hadn't repaired the rails. Now there has been another accident and the trains are running slowly to ...  Read the complete review

Yesterday myself and 5 work collegues went to a conference in Brighton, travelling from London. Even though we did have valid tickets throughout the whole journey we never encountered any staff members either to check our tickets or to ask for assistance. Also the lack of security seemed a bit disturbing seeing as train stations are ...  Read the complete review

As you probably know there is not one single entitiy known as British rail any longer, but a number of companies responsible for different trains. The two of these which you are most likely to travel on when on long distances are GNER and Virgin trains. The latter have been subject to a lot of bad press...and far be it from me to stick up ...  Read the complete review