I'm going to a conference in April. All staff have £500 per year to spend on such things. The conference, including accommodation, comes to £290.
I intend to take the train there. Not wanting to waste an overnight stay, I found an 05.24 train that gets me in at 09.30. Early, but doable. Should be cheap.
Oh no. 05.24 is apparently 'peak time'. £192. Whereas a journey at 9.45 is 'only' £50, despite that train being inevitably busier than one running basically in the middle of the night. This is the insanity of rail privatisation - and why I'll have to miss a morning of this fascinating conference.
Morons. Vote for whoever says they'll renationalise the railways.
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Our rail has been renationalised. Still waiting for any improvement.
It would be wonderful to have a decent, realistically priced national rail service that was clean, ran on time - and was for the benefit of the whole population, not for profit. Pity Beeching can’t be reversed with the reopening of small stations and branch lines.
If it's London try to book with chiltern railways http://tickets.chilternrailways.co.uk/ch/en/JourneyPlanning/MixingDeck. They are much cheaper than virgin or any other.
Regards
PRhero
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