This follows the announcement that caps on regulated rail fairs - essentially those within peak hours - will rise to 3% above the RPI rate of inflation for three years from 2012.
Whether this be over rail nationalisation, a fairer taxation system or greater support for small businesses, it has been made markedly clear that Corbyn's Labour party is in sync with public opinion.
It is neither admirable nor fair to rail against people who seek convenient ways to act.
Meanwhile, Canada is the only G8 country without high-speed rail (although, to be fair, the U.S. isn't much better).
Rail thin, impeccably tuxedoed, his fair haired slicked back, Mr. Raabe comes across as a wised-up adult choirboy with a slightly seductive glint in his eye.
"High street prices have remained stagnant for more than a year, with the official CPI inflation figure hovering around zero, yet the government thinks it's fair to make rail travel even more expensive," he said.
NTV has complained to the authorities about what it sees as FSI's dirty tricks; and it is hoping that a newly created independent regulator will insist on fair play.The national rail operators would surely find it harder to rally political support to keep foreign rivals off their tracks if they were privatised.
To be fair to Network Rail, it is just going through the Byzantine regulatory process of obtaining its budget for 2009-14, and that's why it publishes documents in which these same projects get trundled out time and again: the refurbishment of Birmingham New Street and Reading stations, Thameslink (no longer Thameslink 2000 but rather 2015), and extra carriages.
Campaign for Better Transport campaigner Alexandra Woodsworth said the rises made a mockery of the government's commitment to fair pricing for rail travel.
Whether or not it is fair for light rail to be held to a profitability standard, the fact is that Americans simply are not familiar enough with it to appraise it by other standards.
And so it is that Fair Warning, the Rails' debut album, will be released on the same imprint that gave us classics by John Martyn, Nick Drake and Fairport Convention.
