£80.10 for a peak day return on the train, Newbury to London (which is about 45 minutes).
Over £150 for first class.
I wonder why more people don't take the train.
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I looked at the rail journey costs from Bristol to Haverfordwest.
A one way journey is ~£60. The cost for an equivalent journey via EV is ~£6.
That's the return journey cost. For up to 5 people. At a time of our choosing. In half the journey time.
When you get to Swansea or Carmarthen from Bristol there is no guarantee the connecting service from there to Haverfordwest will be running.
Back in the second age it was regularly replaced with a bus or taxi's 🤔🤦♂️
They would have to pay me to take the train with that alternate transport means available to me.
@neil TOCs are nakedly taking the piss and we're doing very little about it. This is not "public transport"
Just about any train in Eastern and Western Europe is much better. I've done all of it at one time or another. For example. OBB Vienna to Venice about 7 hours. £122.
@neil weird isn't it? Even factoring road tax, servicing etc it's cheaper for a single person to drive most often. I suspect though if it was cheaper they'd never be seats. We have mobile workforce and distributed families but no way to sensibly move about on mass.
@neil That's insane. Barcelona to Madrid (~2 hrs) is about 30 EUR and you can use the ticket on any later train if you miss the one you're booked on.
@neil For a trip to Perth from here in High Wycombe, the cheapest ticket I could find was half the cost of the car (including a share of maintenance etc.). And I couldn't take as much luggage with me. Slightly faster, but I wouldn't get to stop off at Tebay or the Moffat Toffee Shop.
@neil my flights DUB->STN for this weekend were cheaper. Possibly even including the ticket into Liverpool St.