Train ticket prices

On a work trip to Brum today just passing Burton. Got match tickets for Monday so thought I'd look up train prices save driving, have a mooch round Burton with the family etc.

We have between us a 16-17 railcard, a 16-25 railcard and a two together railcard for me and my wife.

Even with railcard savings, Horsforth - Burton = £152.95. 2.5hrs each way . Its 90 miles each way so about £40 in petrol and under 2hrs drive.

Bonkers. Safe to say it's the car for us......

 

Train prices are scandalous. I live in York, work in Durham. Usually up there 3 days a week. A monthly season ticket, for a 45 minute train ride, is over £600 a month. A single ticket on the 7.35am, which I'm usually one of only a handful of customers, is just shy of £30 one way. This used to drop to about £17 for the 8.30 but that's suddenly gone up to £24. This is all for booking the day before once i know my calendar, not just rocking up. It can drop significantly price wise on the Trans Pennine Express, but then you're in to a world of cancellation risk.

London meanwhile you can commute freely on multiple travel platforms at a far cheaper rate and they've just reduced fares for the capital whilst increasing them for the rest of the country

 

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Prices are scandalous and the service is crap. Needs re-nationalising for me....

 

An absolute rip off but people are paying them. There were three of us travelling on Saturday from Hull to Pompey and was gonna pay £106 each return. If supporters buses kept on getting ran right, they’ll be running two buses each on a regular basis as train travelling football fans will inevitably get priced out. Remember going to Shrewsbury from Hull on a return when Winall ran the show a few years back on £52. Felt ripped off then. Be a bargain now.

 

We looked at going to York for the day on the train and it was £40 for 2 adults return from Doncaster. We drove to York, took the Park and Ride into the city and had lunch and had a coffee and still spent less.

 

I've just booked return tickets to Alicante with Ryan Air 63 quid, why are train tickets so expensive if I can fly to Alicante for 63 quid.

 

I've just returned to Hamburg in Germany from a skiing holiday in Austria. I travelled 540 miles each way by bus, underground, 3 trains and a bus. The total cost was €141 each way, about £120, which works out at about 22p per mile.

This evening I'm travelling by train from Manchester Airport to the Curry Mahal. It's about 40 miles and the fare is £20, which is 50p per mile. And that's a special offer, the full single fare is £26.50, 66p per mile.

I wonder why there are so many cars on the roads?

 

Investigate Derbyshire Wayfarer tickets, includes travel between Sheffield and Burton. Obviously you'd have to factor in travel to Sheffield so probably no good, could be worthwhile for folk living closer to Sheffield.

 

A good mate of mine is a train driver for South Western, 36 hours a week, no weekends unless he wants overtime = 76 k a year basic, he's putting in 2k a month into his pension pot ( nice if ya can get it)
Another friend did the 18 month course, didn't cut the mustard so wasn't aloud to drive with passengers on board so is now shunting in Pompey, 54k a year, wish I was 10 years younger

 

Here’s an example of a long distance service running bang on time, just to counter all the stories we read of cancelled and late trains.

I took my partner’s sister to York station yesterday to catch a train to Inverness. It was a service coming up from Kings Cross that morning and was due to depart at 1355. It was on time and I monitored the journey all the way to Inverness. On time at each stop. Arrived on time at her destination. Remarkable that such a long journey ran as scheduled.

The single fare was £82 and it was a direct service KX-INV with no changes. Nice to see that the system works sometimes.

 

Your mate's pulling your pi$$er....

 

There's that famous example of a Mackam getting a return flight to Menorca from Newcastle airport out and back to London the next day for a game, it was cheaper, including the night in Spain, then getting the train.
tbf Megabus is cheaper then both, but you do have to sit next to people who go on Megabus.

 

But if you listen to Mick Whelan they are all in the breadline

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/football-fan-flights-dublin-train-b2167726.html

Might as well fly. It's the same for our games down south. Flight to Southampton Airport and make your way to southern based games from there.

 

I've just had an interview for a job which is 3 days a week in London. Told them I can only realistically take it if they'll add £800 a month to my take home salary to cover Grantham to London on the train. It's 55 minutes.

 

One of my favourite trips to London was on Megabus. Me and the missus got on early morning in Sheffield and found ourselves sitting next to a group of five butch dykes who'd been at an all-night rave in Leeds, and were EXTREMELY talkative. Luckily they were a brilliant craic, although I can imagine I wouldn't have been too thrilled at such company if I'd been wanting to sleep, or do some work.

 

Yesterday I was looking at train travel from Venice to Belluno; 68 miles, £8.50 (or less), and I'm sure it was only a pound less back in 2018.
Rip off, broken Britain.

 

We're probably subsidising continental travel. The vast profits over here are creamed off by the owners who are... French, German, Dutch and....

Taking Back Control. Yeah, right.

 

Aye, blame the ordinary staff for the disgusting price-ripping off private companies. Straight out of the Tory book of ‘ it’s never us or our fault’