Richard Wilson to present documentary about today's railways.

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[eightf48544]

Agree you're right, I daren't cost how much my car costs per mile I only do about 6k a year. Like most people I pay my road tax and insurance once a year. One service when due and otherwise fill up when needed.

I don't worry about depreciation as I've already written off the total purchase price from savings and as it's an 09 hopefully it will probably see me out. My previous car I bought second hand for around ^7K and kept for 10 years plus and sold for ^500 it's still going strong with 100k on the clock.

So tommorrow I am going to Exmouth starting with a full tank I'll top up on the way back. So simplistically that top up will be "my cost".  As there are two of us and when we get there we are taking a 3rd person  somewhere the train or bus doesn't go, the car "wins".

Unfortuantely I would suggest that's the way most people run their cars as necessary evil. 

[inspector_blakey]

Perhaps we should make more use of Group Rover tickets (like the German Lander and Schones Wokenende) to encourage parties to travel by rail.

GroupSave...? Can be an absolutely superb deal, although it's if course a shame that several TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company) no longer honour it.