HS2

[WJ99mobile]

I’ve just priced up Cardiff to Edinburgh on the train for the next half term. Train return was £434. Flying was just over £60

Now every time I watch question time and scrapping HS2 is mentioned it gets a big round of applause. I don’t get it. So much hostility to new infrastructure in the UK.

[Croesy Blue]

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Why would HS2 make it cheaper?

[xsnaggle]

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Why would HS2 make it cheaper?

Stop being sensible!!

[Rjk]

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the trains are ridiculously priced in this country. for intercity travel it should be a no brainer, yet it is frequently quicker and cheaper to drive. how I don't know.

[WJ99mobile]

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Why would HS2 make it cheaper?

It allows for more capacity on the lines

[Armitage Shanks]

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Why are we in Wales laying for it?

[splott parker]

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Why are we in Wales laying for it?

Because we’re very, very tired.

[xsnaggle]

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Because we’re very, very tired.

:hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:

[Canton Kev]

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It allows for more capacity on the lines

Does the Cardiff to Edinburgh route have any crossover with the London to Birmingham route?

[cityhammer]

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Train travel in the uk is the most expensive form of public transport in the world, FACT. It costs more money per mile to travel on trains in the UK than a first class ticket on Concorde was!

[cityhammer]

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It allows for more capacity on the lines

How does that make it cheaper?

[splott parker]

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Used to go to away games regularly by train in the 60s, me and my lot fancied it again lately. Horrendous prices, not viable at all. I’d love to go by rail again but I fear it’ll never happen. Checked it out for the Liverpool game, £100 return was the cheapest I could find, we opted for National Express at £41 return.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Does the Cardiff to Edinburgh route have any crossover with the London to Birmingham route?

There isn't a Cardiff to Edinburgh route, just different ways to get between the two.

As things stand, travel to the north is often cheaper going through Manchester as advance train prices are cheaper between here and Manchester than between here and Birmingham.

[Croesy Blue]

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It allows for more capacity on the lines

:hehe: :hehe:

Train lines are a monopoly even with multiple operators only one can operate a journey. It would be expensive as **** still don’t be naive.

[Croesy Blue]

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Used to go to away games regularly by train in the 60s, me and my lot fancied it again lately. Horrendous prices, not viable at all. I’d love to go by rail again but I fear it’ll never happen. Checked it out for the Liverpool game, £100 return was the cheapest I could find, we opted for National Express at £41 return.

Trains can be the best way to travel but the cost of them in this country are ridiculous.