With train reliability at a dire low, passengers forced to pay extortionate fares and often overcrowded carriages, few could deny that the railways are broken.
ROSS CLARK: Labour's plan to take rail franchises back into public hands might be popular with younger voters - but far less so among those of us who remember British Rail.
Labour have promised to renationalise nearly all passenger railways within their first term if they win the next election. But will it leave the railways better off?
Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has announced the 'biggest overhaul in a generation' to train travel if elected. The Mirror's Saffron Otter, who has taken many journeys on board Avanti West Coast, says it's about time
Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh repeatedly dodged on whether costs could go up for travellers, merely saying there were no 'plans' for increases.