Call for lower fares during railway chaos
wdnews@b-nm.co.ukTrain companies should lower fares to help people affected by the floods, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said yesterday.Inspecting the damage to rail tracks at Dawlish in Devon, he said: “People’s rail travel is getting affected. I want train companies to help them by reducing their fares.”He denied the Government had been slow to respond to the flooding but said he recognised that people “were angry”.And he said he was hopeful that Network Rail (NR)…