(Steve Firth) wrote in
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John B wrote:

I'd like to believe that NR rigs their website so that objectionable
dickheads get offered higher fares than everyone else

In which case you would be paying the highest fare of all.

The cheapest single offered by National Rail for that day is £65 BTW,

No it isn't. I've literally just been to the National Rail website and
seen the GBP28.50 fares that I mentioned. I've even taken a screenshot:
http://twitpic.com/4bqnfs

but buying a single ticket was not the object of the exercise, it was
a return ticket and I quoted the cheapest return available.

Cheap train tickets are only sold as point-to-point fares, like budget
air fares. So, erm, no.

You're clearly either (a) a liar or (b) unhinged or (c) both.

If finding a cheaper fare involves anything more than specifying start
and end points and asking for a return ticket then clearly it is
pointless.

Luckily, it doesn't. Which is why I'm confused as to what you've managed
to get wrong here.

I also note that you specified a ticket that involves a change of
trains at Carlisle and that arrives at 23:88, you really are a liar
and an idiot if you think that a train that arrives six hours after
most business have locked the front door and after the restaurants
have closed and hotels have probably junked your reservation unless
you paid in advance is of use to anyone other than an obsessive rail
freak.

No, *you* posted that one. I was looking at trains that go directly from
KX to EDB, departing between 6AM and 10AM.

And that's assuming that Useless Rail(tm) actually manage to stick to
their timetable, which is unlikely. Ryanair is more punctual than
rail.


Sceptical, but it's not really relevant to the debate in general.

JB