johnnychips
Established Member
From Private Eye 4-17 May 'Signal Failures'
'Just how easy it is to overpay is shown by an Eye reader's purchase of a £172-50 "anytime" Luton-Chesterfield return ticket (standard class) on... East Midlands Trains. The following week he needed to make the journey twice, and the ticket clerk sold him a weekly season ticket, valid on all trains, for £158-70. Our reader would have bought two "anytime" returns - overpaying by £186-30 - had a ticket office not been available...'
Does this sound a reasonable criticism? I've tried to go on EMT website to check fares but it keeps crashing.
'Just how easy it is to overpay is shown by an Eye reader's purchase of a £172-50 "anytime" Luton-Chesterfield return ticket (standard class) on... East Midlands Trains. The following week he needed to make the journey twice, and the ticket clerk sold him a weekly season ticket, valid on all trains, for £158-70. Our reader would have bought two "anytime" returns - overpaying by £186-30 - had a ticket office not been available...'
Does this sound a reasonable criticism? I've tried to go on EMT website to check fares but it keeps crashing.