Train prices

Train prices in the Uk are something else and on top of that rubbish service.

I swear after returning from places like France, Belgium & Denmark the UK public transport system is stone-age and inefficient. Denmark....wow...now *thats* how you run trains. The ride from the airport...so nice!
 
The amount of reduced price advance tickets per train is hugely diminished from what it was 5 years back. Sometimes you can run the same route on the same train, but buying a number of singles and it costs far less. Eg. I have run Newcastle to York, York to Peterborough, Peterborough to Harlow Town on returns without leaving the train, for about 60% of getting a ticket from Newcastle to Harlow Town. The railways are based on what they think the consumer will pay, far far more than they are based on journey distance.

[TW]Fox;14101552 said:
And how often do you, at 21:24, decide you suddenly need to leave for Edinburgh tommorrow morning? Virtually all long distance journeys are known about in advance - and the few that don't pay a premium.
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The problem is, 'in advance' is becoming longer and longer before the intended journey, whilst the time you can book ahead has decreased hugely, under guise of engineering work.
 
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Sometimes I'll get the train from Leeds to London for work; if I turn up on the day and get an open return, that's £235 please

But if book far enough in advance and commit to travel at certain times then it's a lot cheaper, but usually I have to leave @ 6am ish so it's never that cheap.

On the flipside I got a first class single to Newcastle from Leeds to pick up my car for about £10 - result :)
 
Like others have said, only thing I've found to make the fares reasonable is young person's railcard. Hopefully I will be driving by the time I am too old and won't have to use the, frankly, crap train service in this country.
 
Sorry my time for a rant.

The commuter train at 6.30am into London has been shortened by a carriage to 4 carriages now. It comes from sheffield area and mine is the last stop, plus with 1.5 1st class, and a buffet car, that leaves 1.5 carriages for standard.

Now it's standing room only in a fully crush loaded train. Time to complain and write a letter :p but doubt that will do anything at all !!!!!
 
So i shelled out £166 on a monthly ticket between doncaster and leeds. Of the 3 trains i have got to work so far all 3 have arrived late.

This morning i was 15 minutes late as the train pulled into leeds at 09.02 instead of 08.46. (which I got a telling off for on my 3rd day at work)

Great service! NOT
 
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So i shelled out £166 on a monthly ticket between doncaster and leeds. Of the 3 trains i have got to work so far all 3 have arrived late.

This morning i was 15 minutes late as the train pulled into leeds at 09.02 instead of 08.46. (which I got a telling off for on my 3rd day at work)

Great service! NOT
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Don't worry, that probably isn't technically "late" for the purposes of the train company's statistics. Tell you're boss that you were actually on time!
 
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