Train service Letter to Editor

Dear reader, 

As a regular train user, and having a pass, I am getting  

intensively annoyed with the number of times I head 

out on a journey, and there are no staff checking or selling 

tickets on the trip. Moreover, I feel it makes no economic 

sense to run services that make little profit, and the tax 

payer has to fork out on the trains that we run.  

We do cut bus services that make no profit across the  

Principality, but many of these services operate in area’s 

where communities are isolated. The bus drivers do check 

passes and charge for journeys, they do their job and  

these journeys should be maintained. But as for Transport 

For Wales, we need to make sure that fares are collected, 

so that there isn’t the tax burden that we see at present. 

Many stations are un-manned without ticket machines, and 

surely having staff to sell tickets creates income for the  

trains that operate, more people employed, trains are safer, and 

more money to invest in the service?

Yours sincerely,

Karl-James Langford

Gwlad Welsh Parliament candidate