Southampton to Manchester is 233 miles (by road, yes, but it's comparable) so the £84.70 train ticket works out at around 18p a mile for the return trip. Given that civil service car allowance is (or at least was) 40p a mile, I'd say that for once the railways are offering reasonable value. Still a lot of money, but not as insane as many tickets.
The cheapest I can find, even if you can travel off-peak and are willing to travel via Swindon (or Bristol) and Cheltenham rather than Reading, is:
We're driving up - we have to. Half the bloody rail network's shut and there's no way I'm spending half a day on bloody rail replacement shuttle buses :(
Naaah I tried wrangling it every damn which way I could. And yeah I have known for some time that cheaper tickets was gonna be impossible. I had just put off buying them as... well money is an issue right now. The only way I could get it cheaper is if I was willing to come home at about 10pm on the Monday night. I didnt fancy hanging around in Manchester for that long. That city gets scary at night.
Well, no, the "normal" train tickets are horribly expensive. The only reason people can travel is because they have a limited amount of "cheap" tickets on services that are less busy to try and encourage people to travel on them. Unfortunately, because they know demand for tickets is high on a public holiday, there are nearly no "cheap" tickets available.
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The cheapest I can find, even if you can travel off-peak and are willing to travel via Swindon (or Bristol) and Cheltenham rather than Reading, is:
Freedom of Severn & Solent 3-in-7 Rover: £40.00
Worcester to Wolverhampton Off Peak Return: £12.50
Wolverhampton to Manchester Off Peak Return: £25.10
Total: £77.60
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