Compensation payouts to UK rail passengers for delays hit £100m a year
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6M4YY)
Record sum follows almost 320,000 train services being cancelled or part cancelled in past year in Britain
Compensation paid to passengers for train delays in Britain has reached record levels, with annual payouts surpassing 100m and the number of claims for delayed or cancelled trains continuing to grow.
Payouts to passengers for disrupted journeys reached 101.3m in the year to April 2023 - up by 155% from 39m in 2021-22.
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