Are they fixed time tickets or open tickets? (ie if you miss your train do you have to pay again, or at least queue up again?)
ya...sounds brutal! In Japan the crowding is penalty enough for people who insist on traveling during peak
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Actually often the peak time business trains aren't too overcrowded. Because they're so expensive to use.
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So a peak single from Bristol to London is £102, but a "super off-peak single" (still unreserved, on the day) is £33.10.
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That's more like it--the price I gave at the top of the thread is the cheapest (read: slowest) between the two stops...fastest is ~£36
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Speed is mostly irrelevant to fares here, because BR decided not to surcharge InterCity trains. Unless (eg Bristol) there's a slow route.
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Express trains (conventional, not HSR) in Japan are usually more luxurious and have on-board staff to check tickets, so cost more to operate
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Arguably express trains are cheaper to operate, because they do more turns for the same number of driver hours.
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Not if they have twice or three times the number of employees on board, though
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Well, BR decided not to surcharge in its wisdom. High Speed 1 is surcharged though.
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