AndyRM
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- Location
- North Shields
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Right, another moan from me
- Thread starter gavroche
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vickster
Squire
First Monday in May is always a Bank Holiday in the UK
simon.r
Person
- Location
- Nottingham
I've grumbled about train fares on here before - they are expensive compared to driving.
I travelled down to that London on Saturday and returned (to Nottingham) yesterday - the train fare cost £50. Bus, taxi and tube fares at either end another £15.
Driving would have cost about £25.
That's for one person. Take a passenger or two in the car and it becomes really uneconomical not to drive.
I travelled down to that London on Saturday and returned (to Nottingham) yesterday - the train fare cost £50. Bus, taxi and tube fares at either end another £15.
Driving would have cost about £25.
That's for one person. Take a passenger or two in the car and it becomes really uneconomical not to drive.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Son with tax, insurance, mot Tec the car is cheaper? It may be on the day, bit overall mile for mile...
simon.r
Person
- Location
- Nottingham
Company car for me, so only cost is diesel. At the other extreme, if you take running costs at 50p / mile* it still works out at £130 for the return trip, so overall costs are the same for 2 people, cheaper for more than 2.
* http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/running_costs/
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Except that once you have two people by train then you can use a 2gether railcard for 33% off and for three or more there are group tickets.
This also seems to be ignoring the cost of parking a car in that London anywhere half useful.
simon.r
Person
- Location
- Nottingham
Yeah but...last time I looked railcards cost a fair bit, so not really viable for occasional travellers like me. (I travel alone most of the time anyway). I was visiting my son and I can park outside his house in Stratford on a weekend at no cost.
I much prefer taking the train and for as often as I make the trip I'll continue to pay the £50 ish, but I can't help thinking that either the cost of driving is too little or the cost of the train is too much.
Tin Pot
Guru
Unless you need a pee...
Yes indeed they do! But the last two coaches that I've been on to London and back have had the toilets locked as they consider 2 hrs 50 mins to be a short journey.
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Just had a word with the lads, Knuckles McNeil & Slasher Jenkins ....
they reckon they can sort you 2nd class HGV travel, 4 passports, all the frozen ham you can eat & onward travel from Landan Village to Kos with a dinghy thrown in for £200 notes ....
if you can leave tonight.
they reckon they can sort you 2nd class HGV travel, 4 passports, all the frozen ham you can eat & onward travel from Landan Village to Kos with a dinghy thrown in for £200 notes ....
if you can leave tonight.
