More Railway Madness

[major_clanger]

Remember yesterday's post, where I was bemoaning the ludicrous cost of travelling by rail from Edinburgh to Birminham for Novacon? I took brixtonbrood's advice and tried various versions of splitting the journey.

Book as single journey: £100 per person.

Book as singles to/from Doncaster, return Doncaster to Walsall: £65 pp.

Book as singles to/from Crewe, return Crewe to Walsall: £43 pp.

...and going via Crewe is actually an hour quicker than the route suggested when booking as a single journey.

Bugger the Turing Test. A convincing AI will be one that can consistently find the cheapest route to travel on the British railway network.

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

When we went down to London last weekend, it was cheaper to get first class singles each way than any of the available standard returns (there were no standard singles left).

The consensus was that we could get used to travelling like that (especially if it turns out to be true about the East Coast route going to 5-across seating)