OntheTrains

Adventures by Train

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Fares trial @LNER ended in Feb 2026. It was unpopular with passengers, less flexible and more expensive. Why haven’t normal fares returned? @seatsixtyone @DavidHorne

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@ukrailadventure Great choice, Austin. Love a Class 91 Electra 🚂

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@SteveWhiteRail @Captain_Deltic @greateranglia Steve is right. Greater Anglia are wrong. Connection should have been held. Passengers delayed by an hour because GA prioritise punctuality over customer service.

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@ukrailadventure Keep up the train spotting, Austin. More adventures to come 👍

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Antrim Coast, NI #WindowWednesday @every_station @MrTimDunn

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Buy tickets on @northernassist with no bookieng fees? Spelling gremlin strikes @alexhornbyrail @BusAndTrainUser

[High Speed Rail Group @HSRailGroup]

The clock is ticking on the West Coast Main Line’s looming capacity crisis.

https://t.co/Cyh1S1XMAZ

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Flying over the Ouse Valley Viaduct - London to Brighton.

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One for @BusAndTrainUser monthly miscellany. Doesn’t someone check before printing?

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London St Pancras

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@LNER ripping off passengers AGAIN. It’s not Simpler Fares, it’s MORE EXPENSIVE fares.

[BusAndTrainUser @BusAndTrainUser]

A bonus blog for Friday…
Less choice for passengers.
More expensive rail fares.
Welcome to the next phase of LNER’s “Simpler Fares pilot”.

https://t.co/5JXaWx4fuy

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Ouse Valley, Sussex #WindowWednesday

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London St Pancras - Paris @Eurostar @seatsixtyone

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Snap! 15:31 to Paris. Enjoy your trip to Milan, Mark.

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

My 1st attempt to ride the Paris-Milan Frecciarossa was cancelled at 48h notice when the French abruptly closed the UK/France border due to Covid;
2nd attempt cancelled when half a mountainside collapsed onto the line 2 weeks before;
3rd time lucky? 🫣

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Exeter - Paignton @GWRHelp #coastalviews

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@AlexHynes Disingenuous. Your pic is 19:58 on a Thursday night. Hardly a busy time. It’s when there are delays and cancellations (rush hour and weekends) that it gets packed. Oh and please sort out the tube entrance!

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I can’t see a regional route with no major population centres being financially sustainable. Happy to be proved wrong.

[Today's Railways UK @TodaysRailways]

New service: @railandroad has today approved the planned new Go-op train service between Swindon, Westbury, Taunton and Weston-super-Mare. Go-op plans to start operating in December 2025 at the earliest.

[Campaign for Better Transport @CBTransport]

So to recap…
Bus fare cap ⬆️ 50%
Rail fares ⬆️ 4.6%
Rail cards ⬆️ by £5
Fuel duty… still frozen.

Gov talks of delivering on the environment yet undermines itself by failing to adequately tax our most polluting forms of transport & support the most sustainable. #Budget2024

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Not sure why @greensignallers @Modern_Railways aren’t following up on this story. You share the view that @LNER Simpler Fares is a con, so here’s some extensive fares evidence to put to @DavidHorne

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And to finish the month’s fares investigation, Day 31 off-peak average on @LNER is £180.42, a whopping 107% above the old £87 fare. Yes more than double! Higher (not Simpler) Fares.

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To summarise, I have shown definitively over a month that @LNER are ripping off passengers, using surge pricing via advance tickets. The old £87 Saver was withdrawn on 5th Feb, with @LNER wrongly claiming Simpler Fares. @DavidHorne has not responded to any of this.

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And to finish the month’s fares investigation, Day 31 off-peak average on @LNER is £180.42, a whopping 107% above the old £87 fare. Yes more than double! Higher (not Simpler) Fares.