Re:The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternat...
by dboreham on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:18AM
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> It was £235 standard class to get a train that takes several hours.
Presumably for some people the sleeper saves a hotel night, so there's that.
Pricing is definitely inverted vs long ago because I would take the sleeper (archaic term for what we're now calling "night train"??) from Edinburgh to go to business meetings in London vs flying which was much more expensive, we well as inconvenient. On the train you get to walk off the platform reasonably refreshed after a night's sleep and your bacon/egg/beans breakfast and saunter to your 9am meeting. By plane you'd be getting up at 2-3am.
Presumably for some people the sleeper saves a hotel night, so there's that.
Pricing is definitely inverted vs long ago because I would take the sleeper (archaic term for what we're now calling "night train"??) from Edinburgh to go to business meetings in London vs flying which was much more expensive, we well as inconvenient. On the train you get to walk off the platform reasonably refreshed after a night's sleep and your bacon/egg/beans breakfast and saunter to your 9am meeting. By plane you'd be getting up at 2-3am.