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<aacee205-7e9a-4e5e-bd49-618c932bc8b5@x35g2000hsb..com>, at
03:36:35 on Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Nodding Donkey <floridsalopia@m>
remarked:
>Also, why are advance tickets rarely available from suburban stations
>thus providing insurance against delays on local trains (to be fair,
>Virgin do do this).
>
>Do they want our money or not?
They want to be able to advertise catchy fares on billboards and deny
with a reasonably straight face that all railway tickets cost a fortune.
--
Roland Perry