What's the most expensive train ticket per mile?

DanGB

Lewisham to St johns is under 1000 feet (5280 feet per mile) and thats £1.80 for a single fare. So about £9-10 a mile. Of course, no one would actually make that journey!

HappyMJ

robpw2 wrote: »

derby to buxton= 30 miles
anytime single = £35
so 1.16 a mile

However, a derbyshire wayfarer costs £8.90 and is valid between both those stations but can't be purchased or found in the results on the national rail website. Can be purchased on the day at the station.

alanrowell

Newcastle Central Station to Manors at 6:25 on a Saturday morning - £8.80 - the two stations are about 1500 feet apart but you need to go via Morpeth

Shrimping_Shelly

MSE_Martin wrote: »

The Sun asked us this question, which we thought interesting - so I thought we'd see who had found the most.

It wants to find the most expensive ticket per mile in the UK - the reason "It came about after the News Ed was charged a staggering £106 quid to go from Reading to Basingstoke, which is about 30 miles – and in Standard class!" So that's £3 ish a mile.

Can you better (or maybe that should be worsen) it?

Martin

Its more expensive than £3 a mile as reading to basingstoker is 18 miles so that works out at £5.88 per mile!!

dzug1

robpw2 wrote: »

derby to buxton= 30 miles
anytime single = £35
so 1.16 a mile

But Derby to Buxton isn't 30 miles. By road maybe, but by rail it's miles further

dzug1

m5rcc wrote: »

If the shortest distance between adjacent Underground stations – by rail - is the 260 metres (280 yd) between the Leicester Square and Covent Garden stations on the Piccadilly Line AND the Oyster pay as you go Peak price cap is £8 AND if one mile = 1760 yards, then this ride can cost as much as £50.29 per mile

No it can't. The Oyster fare for the journey is £1.90. A 'cap' is what's applied to multiple journeys on one day - so you'd have to do the journey 5 times to reach £8.

dzug1

thelawnet wrote: »

Bedford to Sandy is 8.4 miles as the crow flies and costs £66.30 for a first class single - £7.90 per mile.

But it's not far short of 100 miles by rail - not a sensible way to cost it.

essexpalin

I would love to see the Suns evidence, I cant see how he could have got a fare like that with any ticket routing out of reading. The sun (and printed media in general) seem to lose further credibility with just about every story they print! Hows the saying go 'dont believe everything you read in the papers', how true!

However the general point often made about pay-on-the-day train fares being excessive is true of course, just not in this example!

m5rcc

dzug1 wrote: »

No it can't. The Oyster fare for the journey is £1.90. A 'cap' is what's applied to multiple journeys on one day - so you'd have to do the journey 5 times to reach £8.

Then use the cash fare which will equal £25/mile

pmm1981

How about not swiping out and walking out of an open gate, kerching max fare is charged for an incomplete journey.