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* A remarkably cheap ticketTweed
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Subject: A remarkably cheap ticket
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:57:02 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Tweed - Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:57 UTC

Just done Partick to Glasgow Queen Street off peak day return. Admittedly
only two stops but 2.4 miles by foot. £1.45 return with a rail card!

Re: A remarkably cheap ticket

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From: rol...@perry.co.uk (Roland Perry)
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Subject: Re: A remarkably cheap ticket
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 06:56:08 +0100
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 by: Roland Perry - Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:56 UTC

In message <t4h5cu$no6$1@dont-email.me>, at 16:57:02 on Fri, 29 Apr
2022, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:
>Just done Partick to Glasgow Queen Street off peak day return. Admittedly
>only two stops but 2.4 miles by foot. £1.45 return with a rail card!

There are definitely some bargains out here. I can do 5.5 miles day
return (Super off peak) for £1.95 with a railcard.

The bus would be £4.40 with a Young Person discount (no Senior discount
available, they presumably expect people to use a twirly card).
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Roland Perry

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From: use...@page2.eu (Clive Page)
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Subject: Re: A remarkably cheap ticket
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 16:25:12 +0100
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 by: Clive Page - Mon, 2 May 2022 15:25 UTC

On 30/04/2022 06:56, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <t4h5cu$no6$1@dont-email.me>, at 16:57:02 on Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:
>> Just done Partick to Glasgow Queen Street off peak day return. Admittedly
>> only two stops but 2.4 miles by foot. £1.45 return with a rail card!
>
> There are definitely some bargains out here. I can do 5.5 miles day return (Super off peak) for £1.95 with a railcard.
>
> The bus would be £4.40 with a Young Person discount (no Senior discount available, they presumably expect people to use a twirly card).

Easy to beat that: Luton Airport Parkway to St.Pancras (nearly 30 miles) tomorrow morning by East Midlands Trains: advance single with Railcard: £1-70. Will cost about as much to get the next couple of miles from St.Pancras to central London.

I gather that all ticket revenue goes in the same pot now, so I don't quite understand why they are still doing this sort of thing.

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Clive Page

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 by: Roland Perry - Tue, 3 May 2022 06:31 UTC

In message <jdabepFr91vU1@mid.individual.net>, at 16:25:12 on Mon, 2 May
2022, Clive Page <usenet@page2.eu> remarked:
>On 30/04/2022 06:56, Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <t4h5cu$no6$1@dont-email.me>, at 16:57:02 on Fri, 29 Apr
>>2022, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:
>>> Just done Partick to Glasgow Queen Street off peak day return. Admittedly
>>> only two stops but 2.4 miles by foot. £1.45 return with a rail card!

>> There are definitely some bargains out here. I can do 5.5 miles day
>>return (Super off peak) for £1.95 with a railcard.
>> The bus would be £4.40 with a Young Person discount (no Senior
>>discount available, they presumably expect people to use a twirly card).
>
>Easy to beat that: Luton Airport Parkway to St.Pancras (nearly 30
>miles) tomorrow morning by East Midlands Trains: advance single with
>Railcard: £1-70. Will cost about as much to get the next couple of
>miles from St.Pancras to central London.
>
>I gather that all ticket revenue goes in the same pot now, so I don't
>quite understand why they are still doing this sort of thing.

It'd be £1.15 if part of their recent "sale", which is more of a PR
exercise than actually a handout to the travelling public.

The normal excuse for cheap AP fares is to put bums on empty seats,
although it's almost a bait-and-switch on flows like this, because other
quotas are up to £10.20; the walk-up Super Off Peak fare is £7.70 and
the Anytime only £10.85

[All prices with railcard discount]
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Roland Perry

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From: pet...@parksidewood.nospam (Peter Johnson)
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Subject: Re: A remarkably cheap ticket
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 by: Peter Johnson - Wed, 4 May 2022 15:11 UTC

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:57:02 -0000 (UTC), Tweed
<usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just done Partick to Glasgow Queen Street off peak day return. Admittedly
>only two stops but 2.4 miles by foot. £1.45 return with a rail card!
>
I've got a Leicester-St Pancras return day trip booked for a couple of
weeks time, £7.50 each way, non-stops, too. 7.00am outwards is the
only downside.

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 by: Roland Perry - Wed, 4 May 2022 16:05 UTC

In message <6n557h93gainjv0296jnektdjfov2mpjf5@4ax.com>, at 16:11:13 on
Wed, 4 May 2022, Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> remarked:
>On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:57:02 -0000 (UTC), Tweed
><usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Just done Partick to Glasgow Queen Street off peak day return. Admittedly
>>only two stops but 2.4 miles by foot. £1.45 return with a rail card!
>>
>I've got a Leicester-St Pancras return day trip booked for a couple of
>weeks time, £7.50 each way, non-stops, too. 7.00am outwards is the
>only downside.

The very cheapest regular quota on brfares.com for that route is £13.50
each way.

Maybe you've got the "sale" pricing, and a railcard?
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Roland Perry

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