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Torquay Herald ExpressA DEVON university graduate took on Britain's confusing train ticketing system and managed to halve the cost of his journey – but only with a series of complex calculations and some brain-taxing route planning.
Andy Horton, 22, got fed up paying the full price for "daft" rail fares when he travelled from his home in Hampshire to visit his girlfriend Lucinda in Ivybridge.
His frustration boiled over on Christmas Eve when he decided to sit down and work out the cheapest way of getting from A-B.
After an hour of calculations, and exhaustively researching alternative routes, what he came out with was a whiteboard full of sums and diagrams that look like it might have been part of a mathematics lecture.
Andy, now a telecoms analyst, was eventually able to knock off £32.15 off the normal fare of £69.65 – showing that it can be worth the effort working out cheaper if you want to save money travelling by rail.
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