Train tickets

[Moscow Mule]

There used to be zonal boundaries on the London buses - you'd pay more to cross a boundary in one journey - the same as the tube.

It's all a fixed price per journey across the network now. I assume this is for administrative reasons rather than any sort of benevolence on behalf of TfL.

 

[Pogle]

Do you book in advance, and get two single tickets?
I always do and it can be considerably cheaper than getting an open 1st class return.

I structure my working week so I get in late on Monday and leave at 12 on Friday, that way I'm only paying for one peak time journey. I usually get my return travel from Manchester to London 1st class for around £197

I am now a member of the Virgin Traveller club which entitles me to first class travel for myself and a friend every weekend. So every weekend they pay for me to go home to Manchester and return to London on the Monday - for nought

 

[tino]

Do you book in advance, and get two single tickets?
I always do and it can be considerably cheaper than getting an open 1st class return.

I structure my working week so I get in late on Monday and leave at 12 on Friday, that way I'm only paying for one peak time journey. I usually get my return travel from Manchester to London 1st class for around £197

I am now a member of the Virgin Traveller club which entitles me to first class travel for myself and a friend every weekend. So every weekend they pay for me to go home to Manchester and return to London on the Monday - for nought

£200 on a bloody train??

 

[RichardCranium]

If a tree falls in the woods does anyone hear it scream?

If a man says something in the forest, and there's no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

[DiscoStu]

If a man says something in the forest, and there's no woman there to here him, is he still wrong?

Undoubtedly, yes.

 

[Pogle]

If a man says something in the forest, and there's no woman there to here him, is he still wrong?

HELL yes!

 

[NotAllThere]

Used to be that the 7am train from Kings Cross to Newcastle was more expensive than going to Edinburgh on the same train. But if you were caught getting of the train at Newcastle, with an Edinburgh ticket, they'd do you for evasion.

Strange country.

 

[oracleslave]

If a man says something in the forest, and there's no woman there to here him, is he still wrong?

hear

Very wrong!

 

[RichardCranium]

hear

Very wrong!

Damn! You spotted that just before I did.

Well, it answers my question. I was wrong!

 

[thunderlizard]

On that basis, could I therefore get on at Point A, and do a complete circuit and get off at point A again and not pay anything ?

Since the get off point is the same, would there be any cost ?

Again, no. My position is that you pay to be allowed to get off the bus.
If you don't get on the bus, there's no charge because you don't have to get off it.
If you get on at A, then it goes all through town, then you get off at A again, then you should have to pay.
Likewise if you get on at A, then the bus shuts the doors and remains stationary for 10 minutes, then opens them again and you get off, you should also have to pay.