Danny P
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How expensive is it to get a train these days 
Just looking at tickets for London for the 25th October, and its going to cost £87 per person, there is 4 of us going so thats £348
As if anyone is going to pay that, you can drive down & back for £50/£60 in petrol, make no wonder no cunt uses public transport 
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AndyKent
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Rediculous isn't it.
Couple of mates of mine decided to go up to Edinburgh a few weeks back. Could fly for £99 each, or train for £300 each
[Edited on 03-08-2008 by aPk]
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Colin
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Yip guys I work with used to train it back up & down the country at weekends to get home, then fucked it off in favour of one taking his car. They still get paid the same travel money but now costs £50 instead of several hundred in the train!!
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Danny P
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We were wanting to go on't train so we could drink (off to watch Footie) but at them prices its going to ork out cheaper for someone to drive, share the petrol, and then stay over night in a hotel.....
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Theham85
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quote:
Originally posted by Danny P
How expensive is it to get a train these days
I know last time I tried to buy one the tit asked me for liks £3,000,000 bit steep can hardly even use it up here 
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Welsh Dan
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If you're 25 or under, go and get a young persons rail card. Saves you 1/3 off the price, so although you have to pay £24 for the card, it'll still work out marginally cheaper. If you go on any other train journeys, it will pay for itself quickly.
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toni88
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Trains are cheap if you can book early enough and look around, im going kent from leicester on friday and its only costing 42quid, only booked today too.. Where you travelling from?
[Edited on 03-08-2008 by toni88]
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Joe
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£42 from Kent to Leicester seems steep imo. Would much rather drive in the comfort of my own car, no other people about. As said its stupid how much trains cost if the government are trying to do all this carbon emissions and shit.
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toni88
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Well its £90 in petrol so i think thats alright..weekends are always most expensive too. Yeah they should put the prices down if they're wanting to do all that bollox!
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Danny P
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quote:
Originally posted by toni88
Trains are cheap if you can book early enough and look around, im going kent from leicester on friday and its only costing 42quid, only booked today too.. Where you travelling from?
[Edited on 03-08-2008 by toni88]
I'll be going from Huddersfield.
I've had cheap trains in the past, been from Leeds to London a few times for £20 return which is more like it, couldn't book that early though due to awaiting fixtures being released.
As already stated, i'd use the train more often if it was more resonably priced, but if its going to cost the same/more than driving, im in the car everytime.
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AlunJ
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think of my poor 14k railway wage... U should pay more lol  it is rather expensive. Difference in wages between ranks is also pathetic.
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Kathryn W
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2 People in work were going to London the other month...
Close to £2k it cost them... fuck knows how... obviously first class and all that
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jacko198
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They are fooking expencive, but as toni said, book early enough, and for the right time and it shouldnt be too bad
I need to book soon, i need 2 tickets for the 26th to watch the nfl at wembley!
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MarkM
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Virgin last time I checked have stopped doing the value advanced tickets...
You used to be able to get a train from London to Liverpool for around £50 return with the value advanced providing you booked around 4 weeks in advance.
Doesnt look like they are doing it any more now!
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myke
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apparently if you book your journey station by station, or at least into lots of small chunks along the route, the price comes down massively. You have loads of tickets to keep hold of, but you don;t even need to get off.
an old work colleague who i saw recently did this for his girlfriend from reading to cornwall or similar.
original ticket was circa £95, and doing this got the price down to about £30.
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AlunJ
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quote:
Originally posted by myke
apparently if you book your journey station by station, or at least into lots of small chunks along the route, the price comes down massively. You have loads of tickets to keep hold of, but you don;t even need to get off.
an old work colleague who i saw recently did this for his girlfriend from reading to cornwall or similar.
original ticket was circa £95, and doing this got the price down to about £30.
Yeh that does actually work, buy cheap day tickets between each station
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willay
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costs me just under £200 to commute to work every month.
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MarkM
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Originally posted by willay
costs me just under £200 to commute to work every month.
Costs me £68.50
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willay
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thats from my local station to liverpool street, no tube  
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andy1868
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as long as you book 14 days in advance, you can go to euston from wigan for £24 each. or at least it used to be
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Robbo
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I once paid £55 to go from York to Oxford (about 2 and a half hours) bought in the train station that morning, joke!
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Robbo
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Bird that I used to see gets train everyday from Rugby to Euston... hour each way... £7k a year
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MarkM
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Originally posted by willay
thats from my local station to liverpool street, no tube
Thats from my local station to Charing Cross...also no tube.
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xa0s
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quote:
Originally posted by toni88
Trains are cheap if you can book early enough and look around, im going kent from leicester on friday and its only costing 42quid, only booked today too.. Where you travelling from?
[Edited on 03-08-2008 by toni88]
Where in Kent? 
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little_duke
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tell me about it.im getting my car wednesday and the tickets were £48 each for me and my dad to go to london.ive found a cheap place now though that got us both there for £28 
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