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The cost of trains in the UK is ridiculous. My employer once paid £320 for a return ticket from Manchester to London.
by rocgf 7y ago
The cost of trains in the UK is ridiculous. My employer once paid £320 for a return ticket from Manchester to London.
- celticninja 7y agoI pay that fortnightly. Although I can usually get it for £220 with advance notice.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoAU$400 per fortnight for train tickets! Astonishing. No one one in fifty Briton's live in Australia.
- tigershark 7y agoMmm.. I just got a return ticket London Glasgow for something like 90£. How is it so much more expensive for Manchester (considering that my train went through Manchester and is much closer than Glasgow)?
- maccard 7y agoI've done Edinburgh to London a few times, and it's been >£200 each time
- dijksterhuis 7y agoYou must be booking first class? Or at peak times? It’s £150ish open return from Dundee to London via Edinburgh IIRC for standard class off peak. Pretty much same price as Dundee to Edinburgh train > plane to stanstead > train into liverpool street. Also takes about the same time..
- maccard 7y agoProbably times - not booking first class. I'm travelling again in a few months, but flying, and my flights from Edi to London city are £70 return. My total journey time door to door will be 3:30 (as I happen to be heading to the right part of London for City airport to make sense) and my bus to/from the airport in Edinburgh will cost me £7.50. I've just checked trainline and for the same dates, a train is 4hours 20, will cost £145 for "super off peak single" - and if I'm not careful booking it I'll be standing for that trip. In my case this time I'll also need to get another train from Liverpool St to east london, which is 2 more trains and an extra 30 minutes each way. I'd much rather take the train, but the costs are often stacked against trains in favour of flying.
- rocgf 7y agoWell, there are two reasons, I believe. One is the fact that the longer in advance you buy it, the cheaper it is and the second is that peak vs. off-peak times matter a lot. If you buy one month in advance and at non-peak times (e.g. 12:00 on a Wednesday or similar), it will be around £30-40 probably.
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