article_snippet: Figures released today also show that transport companies and Network Rail are making £800million a year from non-railway charges including parking and catering.
article_snippet: , that's as much as many commuters pay for as much as many commuters annual season ticket.'
article_snippet: Ministers may have limited regulated fare rises this year to 2.2per cent this year but passengers have still got both barrels with big hikes in parking on top of these ceaseless rises in annual fares.
article_snippet: These firms now simply regard stations as profit centres with passengers as captive cash cows.'
article_snippet: These firms are effectively being squeezed dry at the moment.'
article_snippet: Network Rail own and run the 18 largest stations in the country, including King's Cross, Waterloo, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street and Leeds.
article_snippet: The remaining 2,500 stations are run by private franchises like Virgin, Stagecoach, First Great Western, GTR and London Midland which operates Snow Hill.
article_snippet: Figures from the Office of Rail Regulation show that train operators last year made £772million from non-railway charges which includes parking and catering - up more than 4 per cent on the previous year.
article_snippet: Rail industry officials denied companies were 'profiteering' from car park charges, adding that total train operator profits were £250million in 2012-13, down from £270million in 1997-98.
article_snippet: Over the same period, money paid by operators to Government to reinvest in more services has increased 400per cent from £390 million to £1.96billion, Officials Across the country added.