Adds - surely the number of pax who have made an instant decision to travel, have walked to the station and bought the most expensive walk-on ticket (other than businessmen whose companies pay for the ticket) must be absolutely minute; people must surely realise now that even an hour ahead you can make significant savings by going on-line - maybe delay your journey by 20 mins could save £££'s??? But I'm not a railway insider checking tickets!!
Note; when I was in Ibiza and got a call at midnight that my mother had been taken very ill and could I return home (mainly to care for dad who was distraught) I was on to skyscanner and had a choice of three direct flights the following morning, cheapest was £450 and I was home by 2pm - I'd expect to do the same with the railways!! Certainly wouldn't just walk-on for long distance unless I was loaded or had my ticket paid for me!
R.e overpriced walk on fares, if no one uses them (as TOC's like to claim), what's the point in having them so overpriced ?