The cost of a single railway ticket.

[gavroche]

My son works in the Baltic sea on wind farms. He has to take a train from Hamburg airport to where he gets a helicopter to take him to the site boat. The distance is about 300 kms and the cost, first class? .........£28!!
How much would he pay overhere , first class, for the same distance? Probably 10 times more.
So , why can the Germans do it and not the British? Pure greed I think.

 

[swee'pea99]

My son works in the Baltic sea on wind farms. He has to take a train from Hamburg airport to where he gets a helicopter to take him to the site boat. The distance is about 300 kms and the cost, first class? .........£28!!
How much would he pay overhere , first class, for the same distance? Probably 10 times more.
So , why can the Germans do it and not the British? Pure greed I think.

Because Germany still believes in the quaint notion that there *is* such a thing as society.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Bloody hell @gavroche
Is there anything you don't moan about?

 

[snorri]

My son works in the Baltic sea on wind farms. He has to take a train from Hamburg airport to where he gets a helicopter to take him to the site boat. The distance is about 300 kms and the cost, first class? .........£28!!
How much would he pay overhere , first class, for the same distance? Probably 10 times more.
So , why can the Germans do it and not the British? Pure greed I think.

 

[snorri]

Probably 10 times more..

Total nonsense.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Total nonsense.

Don't encourage him.

 

[PK99]

My son works in the Baltic sea on wind farms. He has to take a train from Hamburg airport to where he gets a helicopter to take him to the site boat. The distance is about 300 kms and the cost, first class? .........£28!!
How much would he pay overhere , first class, for the same distance? Probably 10 times more.
So , why can the Germans do it and not the British? Pure greed I think.

200+miles

 

[gavroche]

Bloody hell @gavroche
Is there anything you don't moan about?

I am French and us, French people, do like a good moan.
The biggest moan we ever had cost the king, Louis XVI, his head.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

200+miles

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Outfeckinrageous. They're creaming all that extra off and spending it on lardy cake and whippet racing I bet.

 

[subaqua]

Well depends if he pre booked it or just rocked up and bought it. I know you can do Penzance to Inverness for £40 if you book it right . Not that I would want to spend that long on a train !

 

[rich p]

Mind you, I got stiffed for £86 for a train back from Swansea to Brighton after a dirty weekend with la belle Claudine.
Some of the above may have been exaggerated ...

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 4733760, member: 259"]£28 for a helicopter ride is daylight robbery. The lazy sod should swim it.[/QUOTE]
It's a first class helicopter

 

[snorri]

[QUOTE 4733755, member: 259"]French trains are chufftastic. They just can't do mushy peas, though.[/QUOTE]
The last time I was in a French train with my bike I was put in a wagon with an open door, which was a little frightening at first, but it was a hot day so as aircon goes, the open door was very effective.

 

[stephec]

200+miles

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Yeah but, you do end up in Preston.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I think Gavroche's family just make stuff up cos they know it'll set him off on a rant