You've just scratched the surface of the UK's insane ticketing systems. More detail here: https://busandtrainuser.com/2022/02/13/the-crazy-world-of-rail-ticketi

You've just scratched the surface of the UK's insane ticketing systems. More detail here: https://busandtrainuser.com/2022/02/13/the-crazy-world-of-rail-ticketing/ https://busandtrainuser.com/2022/02/13/the-crazy-world-of-ra... You can't make any assumption or inference about anything based on the price presented to you in a given context. This is likely going to be an issue in this year's UK election. The only people who are happy about this is train operators who profit from customers getting bad deals.