Most Expensive CDR

ReWind

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Most Expensive CDR

« on: September 29, 2011, 10:01:13 »

Looking through a couple of fares to Dover for a journey I plan to make early next year, I stumbled across a very ( in my opinion ) expensive and odd fare!

Hereford - Dover Priory CDR^▸ route Evesham ^66.70

Anyone else think they can find a more expensive CDR out there?

How many people travel off peak to Dover and back in a day from Hereford I don't know!!!!


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Tim

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Re: Most Expensive CDR

« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 10:56:25 »

I don;t know about the most expensive CDR^▸ , but the most stupid are those for local journeys to airports (ie, Keynsham to Bristol airport) where the CDR is the only return. I know the distance is too short for a period return, but you would have thought that an airport from which people will fly away for a week or two might be a sensible exception.


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grahame

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Re: Most Expensive CDR

« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2011, 10:56:57 »

222 miles each way ... 15p / mile. Oddly long distance for a day return, but the fare seems to be within the bounds that I might have expected. In fact it compares favourably to 22p / mile for super off peak returns from Wiltshire to London.


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autotank

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Re: Most Expensive CDR

« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2011, 12:07:07 »

Sounds like a bargain - would that be valid on HS1^▸ ?


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JayMac

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Re: Most Expensive CDR

« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2011, 18:19:23 »

Don't see why not. The routeing permission doesn't exclude HS1^▸ . But then it would be difficult to fit +LONDON EVESHAM NOT VALID ON HS1 on the ticket!


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