Train Prices

[joe_hfc]

i went to edinburgh for the weekend. i was running late on the saturday morning so had to buy my adult return ticket on the train, which was £50!!!! i lost my return the ticket on the sunday evening when i was returning, so had to buy a single ticket from edinburgh to inverness. i went to one of the wee machines so i could get a 'childs' ticket for myself (seen as i would never get sold one at the counter), and it was £30!!! it would have been £60 for the single if i pay the proper adults fair! absolutely ridiculous! busses for me in future :brickwall:grr:

[Jack]

Two businessmen one in Edinburgh one in London need to meet up. Come down to London the London one says; come up to Edinburgh the Edinburgh one says. So for less than the price of a standard return they both flew to Barcelona met for a few drinks then both returned home having spent less than they would have if ONE had taken the train!

I’m trying to get to Northampton, for a party one weekend next month, with my wife - over £200 for the pair of us for rail tickets alone never mind accommodation etc. on top of that! Looks like I’ll have to phone the oil refinery and tell them the big Beemer is going on a long trip!!! :greengrin

[Hibby D]

i went to edinburgh for the weekend. i was running late on the saturday morning so had to buy my adult return ticket on the train, which was £50!!!! i lost my return the ticket on the sunday evening when i was returning, so had to buy a single ticket from edinburgh to inverness. i went to one of the wee machines so i could get a 'childs' ticket for myself (seen as i would never get sold one at the counter), and it was £30!!! it would have been £60 for the single if i pay the proper adults fair! absolutely ridiculous! busses for me in future :brickwall:grr:

We got four return tickets to Invershneckie for the game on 23rd August.

Total for all 4 = £56 :thumbsup:

[joe_hfc]

We got four return tickets to Invershneckie for the game on 23rd August.

Total for all 4 = £56 :thumbsup:

that just makes me even more :grr: lol

[Onceinawhile]

Two businessmen one in Edinburgh one in London need to meet up. Come down to London the London one says; come up to Edinburgh the Edinburgh one says. So for less than the price of a standard return they both flew to Barcelona met for a few drinks then both returned home having spent less than they would have if ONE had taken the train!


mock the week, andy parsons:greengrin

[carnoustiehibee]

the train prices from carnoustie to edinburgh change every sat.

its cheaper for me to get a return to kirkcaldy then return to edinburgh.

[Cocaine&Caviar]

I got my Lowestoft to Embra train for the barca game for £65 return, which i tohught was reasonable, lasting 7 hours arriving 10pm. However the Lowestoft - Norwich train broke down which meant that i had to get a taxi from newcastle to Embra, costing £260 - they paid though :thumbsup:

[hibsdaft]

time for free public transport imo, may seem a bit of an leftfield idea at first but the more you think about it the more it makes sense, what with global warming etc.

would do wonders for tourism too.

[hibby19]

mock the week, andy parsons:greengrin

Was thinking that myself :greengrin

[The_Todd]

I've had to give up getting the train to work. Monthly pass was £275 per month or £17.70 return per day.

It's cheaper to rent a room in Glasgow than get the train every day! :brickwall

Now I get the bus - £110 per month, and takes 90mins, not including the time it takes to get from the house to the bus station in the first place. Leaves me short of cash and exhausted by the end of the week! :brickwall

[Lucius Apuleius]

i went to edinburgh for the weekend. i was running late on the saturday morning so had to buy my adult return ticket on the train, which was £50!!!! i lost my return the ticket on the sunday evening when i was returning, so had to buy a single ticket from edinburgh to inverness. i went to one of the wee machines so i could get a 'childs' ticket for myself (seen as i would never get sold one at the counter), and it was £30!!! it would have been £60 for the single if i pay the proper adults fair! absolutely ridiculous! busses for me in future :brickwall:grr:

I thought you were only entitled to a child's ticket if you are 16 or under? If so it seems perfectly correct to me that you paid an adult fare. The fact it is so expensive is a separate argument IMHO.

[Speedy]

I thought you were only entitled to a child's ticket if you are 16 or under? If so it seems perfectly correct to me that you paid an adult fare. The fact it is so expensive is a separate argument IMHO.

I think what he was getting at was that he had already paid for a return but then lost it and therefore didn't want to pay another £60.

Think the lesson here is to book your tickets in advance and then don't lose them.

[Hannah_hfc]

Booked tickets from Glasgow to Aberdeen a few weeks before i went and got them for £10 each way which at the time was only a pound or so more expensive than the megabus :thumbsup:

Best advice: book way in advice, bus or train :agree:

[joe_hfc]

I think what he was getting at was that he had already paid for a return but then lost it and therefore didn't want to pay another £60.

Think the lesson here is to book your tickets in advance and then don't lose them.

its not really anything to do with that i lost it or not. mabey the thread would have been simplier if it opened:

inverness - edinburgh adults return - £50

edinurgh - inverness childs single - £30

silly pricing and overpriced?

[hibsdaft]

Booked tickets from Glasgow to Aberdeen a few weeks before i went and got them for £10 each way which at the time was only a pound or so more expensive than the megabus :thumbsup:

Best advice: book way in advice, bus or train :agree:

aye and thats why the system is ****. emergencies and tragedies and peoples wallets are getting hammered, its a joke. folk like the poster above commuting to glasgow are being crippled.

this is no way to incentivize people into giving up the car. if we're serious about climate change public transport has to be subsidised 100%.

[wpj]

Booked tickets from Glasgow to Aberdeen a few weeks before i went and got them for £10 each way which at the time was only a pound or so more expensive than the megabus :thumbsup:

Best advice: book way in advice, bus or train :agree:

Not always Hannah, i am in Devon at the mo, £35 for two singles to and fi London booked last week, before that it was about £75-£100. Just booked a first class ticket to Liverpool, £20 cheaper than standard!! waiting to book the return as it's about £75 plus at the moment but will come down nearer the time.
it's a lottery, i check daily until the price hits my budget :dizzy:
(disclaimer: this may lead to a frantic last minute visit to megabus)

[s.a.m]

I booked tickets for myself and my daughter to Newcastle - well in advance, took me ages to work out which tickets we were eligible for on the web-site, but they were extremely cheap. Had to repeat the process for Aberdeen - similar chain of events, but I couldn't believe the price of the tickets. Can't remember what it was, but the price was shocking.

There do seem to be bargains, if you know how and when to look for them, but the system is extremely complicated, and you can pay well over the odds. As someone else said, many don't have the option of booking ages in advance, or spending ages comparing prices.:grr:

I'd much rather see a simplified, fairly priced fare structure, where you know what you're paying when. The current system of great bargains for the few, and everyone else being ripped off is, IMO, outrageous.

So there.

[MrRobot]

£72 quid return for Leeds festival if I go.

[Hibbychick]

I remember watching a prog on tv about train prices and as an experiment the guy bought a train ticket from Station A to Station D (can't remember where it was) which turned out to be much more expensive that when he bought individual tickets from Stations A -> B, B -> C and C-> D.
They were going to the same place and he didn't even have to change train :brickwall

[HibbyDave]

i went to edinburgh for the weekend. i was running late on the saturday morning so had to buy my adult return ticket on the train, which was £50!!!! i lost my return the ticket on the sunday evening when i was returning, so had to buy a single ticket from edinburgh to inverness. i went to one of the wee machines so i could get a 'childs' ticket for myself (seen as i would never get sold one at the counter), and it was £30!!! it would have been £60 for the single if i pay the proper adults fair! absolutely ridiculous! busses for me in future :brickwall:grr:


Try looking on qjump. they also do special deals for Freemasons:wink:

[OstKurve Hibs]

I was booked on the megabus from perth to birmingham return. £15 each way, i missed the return bus journey and could only get home by train....£75!!!!!! 1 way to edinburgh. And they try to encourage us to use public transport........

[GhostofBolivar]

Had a flight up from London cancelled back in March.

Had to fork out £100 for single on the train. An open return would have cost £101 :confused:

Return to Birmingham costs about £100.

Ridiculous.