My car's TCO is £0.64/mile. Easily beaten by the train. Assuming I'd have a car already, though, I'd already have paid for the car, insurance, MOT, tax, blah b

My car's TCO is £0.64/mile. Easily beaten by the train. Assuming I'd have a car already, though, I'd already have paid for the car, insurance, MOT, tax, blah blah. So for a journey I'm contemplating taking, where the choice is car vs train, the train is competing against the marginal per mile cost: roughly, fuel+repairs. For this my car's cost has been £0.28/mile - a figure that usually turns out to be pretty close to the cost of the train. (In fact, this comparison is being unduly generous to the train, because most of my driving is short trips. For longer trips the car is more fuel efficient, making the marginal cost more like £0.20/mile.) I'm also not taking into account the cost of travel to the station. But then again, I'm also assuming there will be free parking at your destination...