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To be honest I'm quite disappointed by that. I'm not a fan of Branston at all, but the West Coast Main Line is what connects me with my parents' place, and in all the years I've lived in London I've never paid much more than £45 for a return journey, it's now 1hr50mins to get all the way up to Runcorn, and I think I've only ever been seriously delayed once, which was something to do with the track rather than the rail company. Their bike booking was always easy and efficient as well.
Virgin Trains seemed to me to be the exception that proved the rule about the catastrophic privatisation of our transport network.
The new idea from First, trying to pack more seats into the same crowded trains, and presumably raising the prices while they're at it, isn't very good news.