Dixie Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Moving the motorhome down to South Wales as part of our move, and needed to get the train back from Cardiff to Newcastle. Looked online, tried a few sites, and the best I could get for the day I want was £127.50, no advance purchases available. Anne suggested trying breaking the journey so just to please her I tried Cardiff to Manchester and then Manchester to Newcastle. Result: £27 for the first leg and £24 for the second. Total £51, a great deal less than half the single ticket price! Same trains, same journey, same changes. What's going on there then? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 It's their way of fiddling from the inexperienced traveller. Often by using online sites you can play around with various times etc and make a saving. Booking well in advance is an absolute must. Book on the day or a few hours before and you get seriously whacked. When you book make sure the site you use charges for tickets only. Some charge a booking fee and even worse, a fee for using a card......even if it's a debit card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 The more confusing and expensive they can make each journey the less many of us are inclined to use it and as the railways allegedly still run at a loss it saves them having to employ more staff and trains to make an even bigger loss on our account. So by not using the railways we are doing the taxpayer a greater service by not adding to the losses and thus keeping the subsidy that we the road users pay to keep the minority in their train seats at it's current level! Simples! You know it makes sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robkilby Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Tracker - 2011-04-25 5:57 PMThe more confusing and expensive they can make each journey the less many of us are inclined to use it and as the railways allegedly still run at a loss it saves them having to employ more staff and trains to make an even bigger loss on our account. So by not using the railways we are doing the taxpayer a greater service by not adding to the losses and thus keeping the subsidy that we the road users pay to keep the minority in their train seats at it's current level! Simples! You know it makes sense!Possibly :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usinmyknaus Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Our visitors from the North can't believe how expensive SWT fares towards London are or how recently introduced, sneaky, 2-tier "off-peak" tickets limit choice, cost more and catch out the unwary. Most crazy of all, if I want to go 1-way to a town say 14 miles away and walk back, the single fare is just a few pence less than a (very expensive) return ticket. Nuts. The operator appears also to have made the old second class-size seats the new "first" class and introduced new second class seats that are unbelievably tiny, at a time when passengers appear rather wider than their counterparts in past decades...... Anyone daft enough to pay a 2/3-ish premium for a first class ticket finds themselves sitting in a cramped box through which all the other passengers walk, lots of whom of course, take every opportunity to disturb and annoy the first class passengers....... Bob *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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