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Are fares on the Blaenau to Llandudno line higher than average?

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Y Ddraig Coch

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Are we paying over the odds for tickets on the line?

From memory not fact, I remember paying about £6 return from Llandudno to Blaenau in recent times

It's now £9.50 for a short and slow journey.

Has it gone up at a higher rate than inflation? Did it used to be subsidised at all?
 
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Are we paying over the odds for tickets on the line?

From memory not fact, I remember paying about £6 return from Llandudno to Blaenau in recent times

It's now £9.50 for a short and slow journey.

Has it gone up at a higher rate than inflation? Did it used to be subsidised at all?

In 2011 it was £7.30 for a standard day return. If you were paying ~£6 for an undiscounted day return in recent years it was probably the small group day return (£5.50 in 2011 now £7.10 )

http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=BFF&dest=LLD&rte=1000&tkt=SGD
 
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Given how much work the line has needed to repair flood damage in the past few years, fares contribute only a tiny fraction of what the line costs to operate, so it can hardly be deemed poor value even at the increased rates!
 

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Given how much work the line has needed to repair flood damage in the past few years, fares contribute only a tiny fraction of what the line costs to operate, so it can hardly be deemed poor value even at the increased rates!

It has absolutely no correlation between how much work is done on a line and the dates or as you rightly point out the dates on the Conwy valley would be the most expensive in the country I'm sure. So luckily that isn't the case.


It is used a by a lot of people as an essential transport link for some isolated villages and communities. I had it in my head it was subsidised by someone WAG or the council to make it affordable.

I know pensioners can use the line for free using their bus pass, Maybe this is where I was getting confused.
 

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It has absolutely no correlation between how much work is done on a line and the dates or as you rightly point out the dates on the Conwy valley would be the most expensive in the country I'm sure. So luckily that isn't the case.


It is used a by a lot of people as an essential transport link for some isolated villages and communities. I had it in my head it was subsidised by someone WAG or the council to make it affordable.

I know pensioners can use the line for free using their bus pass,
Maybe this is where I was getting confused.

Only during certain periods of the year.
 

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It has absolutely no correlation between how much work is done on a line and the dates or as you rightly point out the dates on the Conwy valley would be the most expensive in the country I'm sure. So luckily that isn't the case.


It is used a by a lot of people as an essential transport link for some isolated villages and communities. I had it in my head it was subsidised by someone WAG or the council to make it affordable.

I know pensioners can use the line for free using their bus pass, Maybe this is where I was getting confused.
£9.50 return doesn’t seem too bad compared to £21 off peak single from Colwyn Bay to Chester.
 
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