Train fares, Railcards and Discounts

network railcard.

I don't think Chester is in network south east...

This is all that's here (concerning renewals past age 25) on the 16-25 website.

Is there anything else? I missed the 'before 24th birthday' bit for the 3 years. :(

So it doesn't matter either way - 3 years or 1 year (renewed the day before your 26th) it still only takes you up to the day before your 27th birthday...

Advantages...now lets see:

£1000 a year better off
More time...get to where I'm going quicker
Fitter.

Downside:

Less time to read the paper.

Does Megabus go to Chester?

Yeah, Network Card (but not much good for weekday travel due to minimum fare restrictions, plus no using it before 10am-ish).

Groupsave where applicable.

Buying 2 singles well in advance, though the cheap fares tend to entail travelling before 8am (but often a cheap outward bound plus more normal return is still cheaper than the superadvancereturn things).

No one on here should need a zone 1 & 2 pass.

The zone 1 & 2 is something like a 5 miles commute, thus only take 20 to 30 minutes on a bicycles.

Hell, you don't even need to wear those special cycle clothes just to commute that distance.

Get a motorbike.

I cannot see any reasoning to raising the cost of train fares, can anyone enlightened me?

Fuel duty has increased and so has VAT.

Do keep up, Ed.

Or just ride your bike. Get into audax, etc.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=London%20to%20chester&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

191 miles

Post yourself?

Woo, I never noticed Network Railcard went so far west!
Also, if you're travelling with others, your discount applies to them too.

But the £13 weekday minimum is a pain.

Get a motorbike.

Bit of a long trip to do regularly on a MB.

Move to Chester. Be on Hollyoaks.

Im assuming that your travellin from Euston?

If so, in advance, you can get singles for £11.50.

BOOM.

Why was the train fare in Norway is so cheap? Oslo to Trondheim, 500km, only £20 when booked within a couple weeks.

Norway is one of the few counties with out debt. Oil money is invested and saved, plus high general taxation but low corporate taxation plus a small population to spread the wealth amongst.

Any ideas why it only costs me £55 for a tourist concession open return from Basel to Zermatt and also only a tenner for an open return between Gerona and Barcelona?

I am happy to pay £65 for just under 1,000km of high speed train travel on spotless trains including a crossing of the alps.

That wouldn't even get you to Chester in a carriage full of sick most days.

I wouldn't really complain that much but I'm extremely jealous of the people in Spain and Portugal in particular who seem to have had a very much improved train network built for them out of EU coffers. They don't even seem to have potholes in the roads either.

Grumble.

Fuel duty has increased and so has VAT.

Do keep up, Ed.

A number of lines have gone up way in excess of this. The rail companies have been limited to a c6% fare increase on average - obviously this means that they can push some lines up massively, and keep others the same and still hit the 'on average' part. I don't know what the average is done accross (increase fare per mile of track? fare per route? fare per unit time travelled) but I understand that they've bumped their most populous routes up a lot this year. The 'on average' was abolished by the last govt and bought back in by this shower we've currently got.

Trains in this country are a disgrace.

Big fat map here. Too big to post...

Look like some people won't be buying sandwich at the train station's cafe.

Those sandwiches are almost always shit anyway.

We're English, we don't know any better.

You what?

My apologise, apart from you.

Get her up the duff and get a family railcard. Sorted.

Sack her for an old biddy and get a senior railcard. Sorted.