Train tickets

Trains are a mystery to me.

Thank god.

 

It seems FC will set you straight Sheal, but the railway is a strange animal
If you know exactly when you are going and you book four weeks in advance then you get a large discount,
Mentioned earlier about the split ticket, How strange is that,
You get on the train from Liverpool to London return, and it is a high price
You get on the same train but with single tickets for each part of the journey and it is almost a quarter the price,
My daughter bought a return from Kirkcaldy to Aberdeen @£85, she was at the other side of our town to the Kirkcaldy road, so went to Markinch a town ten miles NEARER Aberdeen so less journey, and was told that it is £98 from Markinch
They did not make her pay the extra £13, they fined her £120 for boarding a train with an invalid ticket PLUS the fare :-)

 

Hi FC,

Are you gonna keep us all in suspenders then ?

....... Sorry, , , suspense

( tomorrow night's suspenders night )

 

Thanks everyone for your help. @fat controller has come up trumps for me!

I haven't used British Rail for forty years, travelling to and from Essex and London everyday where I worked. The trains will look a whole lot different to me now!

.......And before someone wisecracks! Yes, I do remember steam trains and travelled on them as a youngster.

 

I know a man up here in Scotland He is Autistic, but on his bedroom wall he has a bus destination board and is obsessed
He knows everything regards bus travel, Instantly, he does not look it up
What time what bus stop where it is, how to cross the road and get the connection opposite Boots the chemist etc in anytown, anytime and anywhere
Ask him how to get from Auchtermuchty to Abergavenie and he will instantly tell you
Get bus 11a to Kirkcaldy at 08:31 change at the second bus stop at 08:37 for bus 38b to Edinburgh, go to platform 3 and board bus 24x to Newcastle for bus 1a to Exeter, the bus stop outside wetherspoons wait three minutes and get on bus 64 to Cardiff and remain on the bus when it gets to xxx and at 20:34 get off at the stop opposite the Red Lion pub

He is amazing, and unemployed, Why oh Why a bus company does not employ him as an Inspector or something eludes me
He can tell you exactly how to get from any A to any B at the drop of a hat not just main routes but anywhere anytime He even tells you the colour of the bus
AMAZING

 

Sorry @shiney, I had nothing to do with the year I was born.