Two Together Railcard

The only time we would use the train would be the 720 mile trip from here to Penzance in Cornwall where i am from and my family lives. Sadly though, even with the railcard's 1/3 off the trip is still prohibitively expensive for us. The rail fare before the increases in January was £440 each for a advance return so that's probably way over £900 for both us now that the fares have increased. A 1/3 off still makes it £600+ total for the pair of us. I can do the trip driving and it only costs around £280 in fuel for the return trip. Add in the fact that driving takes a maximum of 12 hours (best time was 10.5hours) including a couple of breaks and the train takes 14.5-15.5 hours makes the rail service an expensive, lengthy and uncomfortable joke.
 
The advance fare is not 440 at all. Advance fares are only released 12 weeks ahead so the price you found was a flexible walkup fare.
 
pastymuncher said:
The only time we would use the train would be the 720 mile trip from here to Penzance in Cornwall where i am from and my family lives. Sadly though, even with the railcard's 1/3 off the trip is still prohibitively expensive for us. The rail fare before the increases in January was £440 each for a advance return so that's probably way over £900 for both us now that the fares have increased. A 1/3 off still makes it £600+ total for the pair of us. I can do the trip driving and it only costs around £280 in fuel for the return trip. Add in the fact that driving takes a maximum of 12 hours (best time was 10.5hours) including a couple of breaks and the train takes 14.5-15.5 hours makes the rail service an expensive, lengthy and uncomfortable joke.
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You should take a look at flying from Aberdeen to Newquay. It's probably a similar cost to driving (as long as you can arrange transport either end) but hell of a lot quicker.
 
Great, so we now have rail cards for the following;

  • Young People
  • Students
  • Old People
  • Couples
  • People with children
  • Disabled
  • People who travel in the South East

I'll leave the disabled alone, but surely the rest should be discouraged from using trains. If you want people to travel don't give incentives to some of the most annoying people in society. We just need railcards for drunks, Morris Dancers, Jahova Witnesses and Boris Johnson and the scheme is complete.
 
Kind of unrelated but are there any rail cards for just the average guy, not young, not oap, not a couple.

Bristol to London/Plymouth/Cambridge/Abergavenny are my usual ones.

I much prefer going on a train and watching films, than driving.

Everyone should just pay an extra £100 or whatever it needs to be a year in taxes and make bus and trains free. would also reduce traffic, boost the economy.

Also aren't they changing single way to be much cheaper than it currently is? Swear I heard something about that. When that coming into affect.
 
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K.C. Leblanc said:
Great, so we now have rail cards for the following;

  • Young People
  • Students
  • Old People
  • Couples
  • People with children
  • Disabled
  • People who travel in the South East

I'll leave the disabled alone, but surely the rest should be discouraged from using trains. If you want people to travel don't give incentives to some of the most annoying people in society. We just need railcards for drunks, Morris Dancers, Jahova Witnesses and Boris Johnson and the scheme is complete.
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Maybe just being in public is not for you, eh?:rolleyes:
 
That's pretty good, well, as good as it gets for our train prices anyway. It's like a promotional offer you get in supermarkets where one week X cost £2, next week it costs £2.50 and now it's 2 for £4.
Train prices are silly money here and these deals are the only way to get the prices anywhere near acceptable.

Me and the GF will get one, we go into london together quite frequently so would be nice to save a bit on a travelcard.
 
The drunkard railcard shouldn't give any money off fares though.

Instead after you fall asleep on the train and end up 30 miles past your stop it will let you travel back for free. I'd get one.
 
Glaucus said:
Just tried it on a Bristol to London route on train line, made no difference to the prices, on or off peak.
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Because it only applies in London and the South East. It's hangover from British Rail when that area was one sector.

The answer to your question is no, basically.
 
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