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Rail fares increase
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stacker1195
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Off Topic You sound like you know what you're talking about PS. Voice of experience?
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Being as my dads been a train driver for the last 15 years - I'm certainly no spotter - but I do have access to a SME!!!
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I was talking about picking up the tickets at the station not the trains!!! I can buy tickets online for a trip from here to London but would only be able to 'collect at station' if I were in London to start with. Stations should all have these machines, like cinemas do for when you buy their tickets online.
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I agree with the pie man, you just have to use a bit of nous. Research it.
You can go on Eurostar to Brussels for £59 return (no hidden taxes unlike the airlines) as long as you book more than 2 weeks in advance. It takes 2 hours, no check-in faff, no immigration queue and no baggage reclaim. The airlines and ferries can't compete with that.
You can do London to Manchester on Virgin trains for £47 return (and be there in 2 and a half hours) as long as you book in advance. Again, a car can't beat that.
Still can't find a cheap fare? Look at alternative routes. For the sake of a quick change somewhere you wouldn't have thought of, you can halve your ticket price.
Sick of paying £4 per single journey on the tubes? Buy an Oyster card. Any bus journey is then £1, and a whole day's unlimited travel costs no more than six pound odd, regardless of how many journeys or how long they are, on National rail, DLR, and tube. (Within the M25).
Granted it takes a bit of digging around on the internet, but spend 30 minutes looking on the net and doing your homework and you'll spend a lot less to travel.. To be honest I hardly use my car at all these days.
You can go on Eurostar to Brussels for £59 return (no hidden taxes unlike the airlines) as long as you book more than 2 weeks in advance. It takes 2 hours, no check-in faff, no immigration queue and no baggage reclaim. The airlines and ferries can't compete with that.
You can do London to Manchester on Virgin trains for £47 return (and be there in 2 and a half hours) as long as you book in advance. Again, a car can't beat that.
Still can't find a cheap fare? Look at alternative routes. For the sake of a quick change somewhere you wouldn't have thought of, you can halve your ticket price.
Sick of paying £4 per single journey on the tubes? Buy an Oyster card. Any bus journey is then £1, and a whole day's unlimited travel costs no more than six pound odd, regardless of how many journeys or how long they are, on National rail, DLR, and tube. (Within the M25).
Granted it takes a bit of digging around on the internet, but spend 30 minutes looking on the net and doing your homework and you'll spend a lot less to travel.. To be honest I hardly use my car at all these days.
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We keep having cash taken off us to invest in alternative forms of traffic, only today the Govt tells us the burdon of rail investment must fall onto those that use the service.
Just where do my 'green' taxes go Gordon
Just where do my 'green' taxes go Gordon
Cost is not the only issue here. As has been mentioned already, some trains have inadequate luggage space, they are overcrowded and innaccessible for people living in certain areas. In order to get people out of their cars, public transport has to be not only cheap, but easy and attractive to use.
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Mrs MWD and the two MWD Grizzlers travel by train to visit the in-laws. By booking early and travelling off peak with a railcard, I can get a direct return from Peterbro to Inverness for a total of about £86. If we turned up on the day and booked it would be double that.
I travel to the NE for football matches from Peterbro for £20 return - again by booking early.
The key is to be flexible about your times, or split your tickets, particularly when travelling at peak times so that you only pay for the smallest part of the peak journey. MSE.co.uk has a whole forum dedicated to how to do this and make train travel far cheaper.
I travel to the NE for football matches from Peterbro for £20 return - again by booking early.
The key is to be flexible about your times, or split your tickets, particularly when travelling at peak times so that you only pay for the smallest part of the peak journey. MSE.co.uk has a whole forum dedicated to how to do this and make train travel far cheaper.
Does this site tell you how to increase luggage space and which trains run to deepest, darkest Coningsby?
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No, but national rail website will give you an idea of the times to your nearest station, which I'm guessing would be Lincoln or Boston.
Seat reservations can be made up to the night before departure at any manned rail station, so if you book your ticket 3 months in advance, and it comes without a reservation then you can just get one - I'm sure you'd pop into Lincoln/Boston at least once in the interim period.
My previous GNER ticket purchases have always included reservations which have always been correct - maybe I've just been lucky.
Seat reservations can be made up to the night before departure at any manned rail station, so if you book your ticket 3 months in advance, and it comes without a reservation then you can just get one - I'm sure you'd pop into Lincoln/Boston at least once in the interim period.
My previous GNER ticket purchases have always included reservations which have always been correct - maybe I've just been lucky.
So why did Virgin ask me which seats I wanted to sit in when I booked at the earliest opportunity only to send me tickets with no seat reservation? Honestly mate, it makes my blood boil. When it comes down to it, my weekly commute from Coningsby to Northallerton is nigh-on impossible by public transport (by which I mean trains & buses and not using a car once) and if I could do it, it would cost more than the tenner each way it costs in petrol. Even if you add on car tax, insurance and the minimal maintenance that my Rover attracts, there is no contest.