Claim: Funding for rail companies today is four times what British Rail got in the 1970s and 80s.
Fact-check: Government funding for the rail industry - Full Fact
Verdict: government support to the rail industry is roughly three times what it was at the end of the 1980s, varying year to year. we haven't seen earlier figures.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2017-05-12T00:00:00