I stopped using Rugby for pretty much the same reason. By the time we moved house about 5 years ago, my season ticket had shot up to about £6.5k and that was on top of at least 6 months of post Hatfield aggro.

Now we live on the Midland Mainline which is just slooooow, although we are promised a 4 minute journey saving from December. Of course, the journey times are still slower than when they used to run steam locos up and down and before BR was privatised.