Does anyone understand train tickets?

[Airecraft]

Last week I needed to return home for a day during a trip to the Welsh borders. I looked for train fares from Shrewsbury to home and could get a return off peak ticket for £18 - not bad for 120 mile round trip. I then checked the same type of ticket from Hereford, about twice the distance, and the fare tripled to £63 - odd enough as I expected the cost per mile to come down the further I went. I then checked Hereford to Shrewsbury return which was £18, so it was almost twice the price to buy one ticket , to travel on the same train as it was to buy 2 tickets for each half of the journey. All the tickets were off-peak, same day returns and there were no advance fare deals, these were standard fares. Does this make sense to anybody? Would the train companies end up paying me to travel if I bought dozens of tickets to travel between one station at a time?

 

[oldish hippy]

there are web sites than do al the hard work for you split ticket i know it stupid and other thing is you can get cheaper tickets for longer journey then just get off before journeys end at your station found out when buying camper van as neeeded to get to see them

 

[mumumum4]

there are web sites than do al the hard work for you split ticket i know it stupid and other thing is you can get cheaper tickets for longer journey then just get off before journeys end at your station found out when buying camper van as neeeded to get to see them

You have to watch that the station does not have a ticket barrier if you get off at an earlier station than your ticket says. I have heard of people being charged over £100 to get through the barriers because they got off at a stop or two earlier.

BBC News - Getting off train early costs Durham professor £155

Alison

 

[Firefox]

It may have been two different train companies or part of the long journey may have been on a busier route for which they hike up the prices. Since they split the netwok up the whole pricing structure has become completely retarded.

It wasn't much better before with blue savers and pink savers etc, but now you can't always get on a train which goes to your destination, there are so many restrictions on times and companies.