Thursday 6th November 2025 Taking day trips by train north from London always brings home the huge inconsistency of rail ticket pricing, especially if you want to leave the capital around 09:00 to make the most of your day and enjoy reasonably priced fares. One of the worst culprits for setting unreasonable fares is East... Continue Reading →
A Friday bonus blog for 15th August 2025 Government controlled LNER is further restricting passenger choice and in some cases increasing fares again from 7th September as part of its Great Railway Ticket Rip Off on the East Coast Main Line. In the next phase of its "Simpler Fares pilot" LNER is withdrawing the availability... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 21st January 2025 They say the railway's byzantine fare structure is going to be sorted when Great British Railways (GBR) finally gets up and running. But that promise is like Billy Bunter's never arriving postal order. Every incoming Minister in the DfT over the last couple of decades has promised to sort the complex... Continue Reading →
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