Does anyone on here have much experience of travelling on peak time trains? I've not done it much, and when I have done it was pre-pandemic so things may have changed regardless.

I would have thought those services were pretty much at capacity already. So the change in price won't end up with more people travelling via public transport, they'll just get to do so for less (no bad thing) but end up with requiring cuts to be made to less popular, and therefore profitable, routes to balance the books (or just take the hit - a benefit of public ownership?).

Maybe there's some wiggle room with what counts as "at capacity" with trains where people can be crammed in more uncomfortably right enough.