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UK Rail users = help wanted here please
Hi there
Can anybody from the UK please explain to me why it's often CHEAPER getting TWO tickets to cover your journey rather than one to your final destination -- I did recently London to Manchester - TWO tickets LONDON==>Birmingham Birmingham==> Manchester cost me 11 + 9 = 20 GBP whereas the Through ticket(London ==Manchester) was quoted at 43 GBP FOR THE SAME TRAIN !! (Ok I know not all Manchester trains go via Birmingham but the time difference was only 15 mins ). There are loads of similar examples like this -- you need a Ph.d in Mathematics to work out some of these combinations - but I'm sure it's done to totally confuse the customer.
Cheers
jimbo