I have no idea why it will take so long
It's normally 1h38m
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:10, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Have you
booked yourself onto a train that isn't direct?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:17, Reply)

If you wait for the next one at 17:01 it gets there at 18:39 according to East Midland Trains' website.
edit: Alt: BOOZE
Alt: Alt: As Crow pointed out above, last night.

... although that raises the point that we were aware of each other IRL before I twigged (when I finally looked at a bash pic or two at home seeing as pics are blocked in the office) I'd been aware of him longer as a b3tan.

It sure is an interesting day on the Internet, and no mistake.
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:17, Reply)

And it was 5x the price

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:19, Reply)

Get
on the 17.01 with your 16.31 ticket?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)

They check
and they'll make him pay the extra. I know this from experience.
(berk, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)

:-(

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)

two different train companies.
The 17.01 will be an express. The other will be midland main line, I expect.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:39, Reply)

bastards
they do that to me when i go back to cheshire. if i don't remember to book in advance, it is about £250 on a friday night. ridiculous.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)

£250 is comical.
I got a first class train to York from London without pre-booking and it was over £300 I think.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:24, Reply)

To go first class from Newquay to the Kyle of Lochalsh
Is over a grand.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:35, Reply)

Probably
takes 36 hours too.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:40, Reply)

Fucking Concorde would have been cheaper than this.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:53, Reply)

So that's what they're being used for now.

(Cave Duck, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)

well, travelling on a train is much cheaper than that.
Unless you don't pre-book. But you'd hardly be surprised if you turned up at the airport without prebooking and a flight cost a fortune, so isn't it basically the same thing?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:58, Reply)

you've done well there.
It's only about £280 from Embra to London.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)

mind you, it's Virgin
they give you free booze in 1st class on Fridays (well, any weekday)

Top job.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:41, Reply)

You have to drink a lot of booze
to cover the £250
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:52, Reply)

is this a challenge?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)

yes, agreed
but then only a fool (or apparently a lawyer, Ms Swipe ;) would think that trying to get a ticket for a friday night train actually at the station was going to end up anything other than the fiscal equivalent of anal rape with sandy lube.

I was merely trying to look on the positive side.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:56, Reply)

Ah, that'd be it. Rotten swines they are.
I didn't check the price, apologies!
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Hehe, it's okay
I'm rather skint at the mo so I was looking for budget over convenience. I'm not so bothered about being on the train for so long.
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:26, Reply)

Remember the journey is as important as the arriving.
Imagine the stories that are out there, the personal dramas that are being acted out in all of the houses, cars, factories and farm buildings that you pass, bearing witness to a moment in time of so many lives.

Or there's always sudoku.
(Cave Duck, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:31, Reply)

udoku tella
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:39, Reply)

nu
(Cave Duck, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Do you reckon there are other musical b3tans lurking down there of a Tuesday?
There are certainly one or two I've been inclined to suspect in the past...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:54, Reply)