Train ticket validity
Discussion
I'm on a National Express train heading to London - I've paid £165 for the pleasure (!) and my outbound ticket is ONLY valid today (the return is valid for a month) - this is a recent change for reasons I've yet to work out... What if I had bought the ticket on Saturday for travel today and I'd been taken ill or something?
If I'd paid £20 like those who buy super-advance tickets, then I'd understand, but I've paid £165. £165 just to get to bloody London.
(It'll be expensed back so it's technically not my money - there's no way on God's earth I'd pay that much out of my own pocket)
If I'd paid £20 like those who buy super-advance tickets, then I'd understand, but I've paid £165. £165 just to get to bloody London.
(It'll be expensed back so it's technically not my money - there's no way on God's earth I'd pay that much out of my own pocket)
Tell me about it.
I bought a 'super saver super dooper advanced' ticket to London on Tuesday for £55 then found out I had the wrong day. Rang 3 call centres in India to get it chnaged to the Wednesday to no avail. Turns out that ticket can't be changed but the £20 I had to the trip back at lunchtime can be (minus a £10 alteration fee). Ended up buying another 'open' £120 ticket, but as you say that outward jouney is fixed to Wednesday.
The worst is when you pay the full £165 open fare and then find you are stood outside the toilet for 90 minutes with no seat because the thing is so packed.
Alos, I travelle to Liverpol a few weeks ago for next to nothing. The West Coast line must be the most expensive route per mile in the country at about £1 a mile (return)
When I first started travelling to London on a reguar basis in 2003 I was paying about £75 return, that is now £165. The Hull trains service used to do a first Class ticket for about £80 return (but they only have about 4 trains a day) but that is now about the same price as the open ticket on Nexpress at £165. I can do that jorney in the car on £35 of diesel.
I bought a 'super saver super dooper advanced' ticket to London on Tuesday for £55 then found out I had the wrong day. Rang 3 call centres in India to get it chnaged to the Wednesday to no avail. Turns out that ticket can't be changed but the £20 I had to the trip back at lunchtime can be (minus a £10 alteration fee). Ended up buying another 'open' £120 ticket, but as you say that outward jouney is fixed to Wednesday.
The worst is when you pay the full £165 open fare and then find you are stood outside the toilet for 90 minutes with no seat because the thing is so packed.
Alos, I travelle to Liverpol a few weeks ago for next to nothing. The West Coast line must be the most expensive route per mile in the country at about £1 a mile (return)
When I first started travelling to London on a reguar basis in 2003 I was paying about £75 return, that is now £165. The Hull trains service used to do a first Class ticket for about £80 return (but they only have about 4 trains a day) but that is now about the same price as the open ticket on Nexpress at £165. I can do that jorney in the car on £35 of diesel.
It costs £120 return for an open ticket including underground, but with the recent changes I have found that a weekly one now costs £200.50! Now, go twice in a week and its cheaper! Not quite how the numbers work on that one, but you get the idea.
Maybe its worth looking at alternative tickets etc? Advance ones have changed too, so there might be a cheaper way of doing this.
Maybe its worth looking at alternative tickets etc? Advance ones have changed too, so there might be a cheaper way of doing this.
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