Financial Times 21st June 2025
Figures from the train booking site Trainline show journeys to English seaside towns were up 25% in the period 12-16th June 2025, reflecting reasonable summer weather particularly in the south of England.
Its the kind of statistic that can be found featuring in pieces about the working class by the late socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm/
Of course Trainline is not the only way of getting a train ticket, and why Newquay and Portsmouth top the list can be pondered. However despite long standing claims that the English seaside has been abandoned for trips abroad, this suggests that there is more to the story. The timing, weather aside, may also be interesting. Do people without children or grown up children prefer to take a break outside of the more crowded and expensive school summer holiday period.
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