Fare Discrimination – From the Church Magazine of Greensted, February 1927

Reverend Ralph W. Doyle (editor) turns his pen to railways . . .

“There are constant complaints about the train service and comfortless carriages – all out of date. In Germany there are better ones 4th class, and nearly all are quick, and charges not quite half what they are here.

I am also told that the L.N.E.R. Company discriminates unfairly to dwellers on the little sections of the line in regard to fares. For example, a cheap “day ticket” from Ongar to London costs 2/11. From Buckhurst Hill with its much more frequent trains any day and every day it is only1/1½ ! Is this fair? Also, when friends and strangers from London ask if there are any cheap day tickets to Ongar they are answered in a rough way: No! They are NOT told that there ARE cheap tickets to Epping which is quite near and easy, and close to the Forest that many have never seen. Is this good business Mr District Superintendent?”