EPISODE · Aug 21, 2024 · 8 MIN
August 21st - It's Not Fare
from Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
Once again I'm at London King's Cross station, a hub for the East Coast main line to Yorkshire, northeast England, and Scotland. Two significant fare changes, neither of them beneficial:ScotRail's experiment to abolish peak fares will end in late September after it failed to lure enough travelers out of their cars.And LNER is expanding the area where off-peak fares are unavailable to include the whole line between Newcastle and Edinburgh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Once again I'm at London King's Cross station, a hub for the East Coast main line to Yorkshire, northeast England, and Scotland. Two significant fare changes, neither of them beneficial:ScotRail's experiment to abolish peak fares will end in late September after it failed to lure enough travelers out of their cars.And LNER is expanding the area where off-peak fares are unavailable to include the whole line between Newcastle and Edinburgh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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