For me I shudder to think of the train price but but taking the car
from Burton is 93 miles each way and with an estate car
means I can
bring toys back from the flea market for the cost of 5 gallons of
deseasal ish. And its door to door (car park)
Dave Caroline.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Philip Pemberton
<classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
On 18/05/10 08:38, Andrew Back wrote:
I've been getting London<-> ?Leeds single tickets via the East Coast
website
for 10 - 15 each way if I book advance, non-flexible tickets. And I can't
remember precisely how much a London to Bletchley day return is, but it's
somewhere around 20, maybe less if you can advance book.
Based on what
thetrainline.com and nationalrail.co.uk are spitting out, the
cheapest fare available is the ?76 "advance off-peak return". Any other type
of ticket just sends the price off into the stratosphere; e.g. a standard
off-peak day return is ?170!
Seriously, I could probably get a return plane ticket to a very nice
European city for that, and still have change left over for a reasonably
nice hotel room... As I said before, something's wrong when it costs more to
go by train than by plane. (not that British Rail ticketing wasn't mad, but
it does seem that since the privatisation it's gotten MUCH worse).
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/