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Cheap Rail Tickets
This coming weekend I am heading up to Scotland for a friends wedding, not having an airport handy (what a world we live in - cheaper to fly than drive or train) I decided to investigate the trains.
The price of train tickets in the UK is ridiculous, often leaving people feeling like they’ve been mugged paying £83.00 for a day return Didcot Parkway - London (46 miles as the crow flies), without even guarantee of a seat!
On my journey from Bristol Temple Meads to Edinburgh the return ticket price was quoted as £132.00. One-hundred-and-thirty-two pounds!! A lot of money. In the end I only paid £41.00 by splitting the journey into multiple ‘Advance’ singles. Admittedly I did use a railcard, but even without one the ticket price would have been £62.00 - a saving of over £70!
Bristol - Birmingham, then Birmingham to Edinburgh cost me £10.25 each, the same with the return leg. It’s exactly the same train, just by splitting my journey into singles I saved £91.00! Read the rest of this entry »
