£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, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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)