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On Sunday 17 May 2009 20:06, dave wrote: ... > My rail fair is around £50. It is normally £65 return to London. The > trains, particularly coming back on a Friday are always full beyond > capacity, often with people standing all the way from Paddington to > Exeter. We have the most expensive railways in Europe and the worst. ... > These figures don't give a breakdown of what the travel costs are spent > on. But, booking ahead, at £65 return per week, Plymouth - Paddington > would be something like £3,200 per year. The figures we see here are at > least 4 times that. You must consider the little dears will have to travel first class to avoid sitting with the hoi-polloi who may have ideas at odds with their party - wouldn't want democracy creeping into politics now would we. And a couple of sandwiches and a coffee each way would more than cover the rest.... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html