IaninSheffield
Veteran
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
If you travel further (on the same line) it should cost more, right? Err, no.
For a change of scenery, I sometimes enjoy taking a train out and cycling home. Sometimes I'll ride out and catch the train home. On Thursday I took a train from Worksop to Nottingham, then headed out in the sun for a pleasant ride across through Newark to Lincoln. Just north of Newark I hit a 'Road Closed' diversion which, unusually, I couldn't negotiate through and had to take the extra couple of miles. Back on course, as I headed towards Lincoln, I realised I'd probably miss the train I'd been intending catching by a few minutes. Although waiting almost an hour for the next one wouldn't really be a big deal, a cunning plan sprang to mind. The Lincoln - Worksop train travels through Saxilby which was a little closer to me at that point, so with a small increase in pace, I could probably head it off at the pass, so to speak. I arrived at Saxilby station just as the train was pulling in and caught it by a squeak. Phew!
I didn't have the chance to get a ticket from the machine so had to buy one from the conductor - £8.05 for a single journey, with Railcard. It was only later as I was mulling it over that it struck me that I seemed to recall a single from Lincoln back to Worksop was cheaper than that. When I got home I checked at an online ticketing site:
(The date is for next week, but the outcome is the same)
What on earth is going on?! How can a shorter journey on the same train operated by the same company over the same route cost almost twice that of the longer journey?!
Being a bear of very little brain I'd be really grateful if someone could explain to me the rationale behind this.
For a change of scenery, I sometimes enjoy taking a train out and cycling home. Sometimes I'll ride out and catch the train home. On Thursday I took a train from Worksop to Nottingham, then headed out in the sun for a pleasant ride across through Newark to Lincoln. Just north of Newark I hit a 'Road Closed' diversion which, unusually, I couldn't negotiate through and had to take the extra couple of miles. Back on course, as I headed towards Lincoln, I realised I'd probably miss the train I'd been intending catching by a few minutes. Although waiting almost an hour for the next one wouldn't really be a big deal, a cunning plan sprang to mind. The Lincoln - Worksop train travels through Saxilby which was a little closer to me at that point, so with a small increase in pace, I could probably head it off at the pass, so to speak. I arrived at Saxilby station just as the train was pulling in and caught it by a squeak. Phew!
I didn't have the chance to get a ticket from the machine so had to buy one from the conductor - £8.05 for a single journey, with Railcard. It was only later as I was mulling it over that it struck me that I seemed to recall a single from Lincoln back to Worksop was cheaper than that. When I got home I checked at an online ticketing site:
(The date is for next week, but the outcome is the same)
Being a bear of very little brain I'd be really grateful if someone could explain to me the rationale behind this.