£1000 to spend on rail travel. What would you do?

[Gathursty]

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway tonight gave away amongst other things in their Win The Ads section, '£1000 in rail travel'. So what would you do with £1000? Blow it on a first class epic point-to-point? RJ to the max and still live off it years down the line? A bit of leisure travel here and there?

Off you go.

 

[Kite159]

7 day 1st Class All Line Rover for £724.

Keeping the rest for future adventures

 

[tbtc]

It costs £1.20 for a child day return from Teesside Airport to Dinsdale - I'd buy 833 of them in the same year to bump up the figures for the Airport station and confuse the statisticians.

(or, insert some predictably droll comment about £1,000 being enough for one single journey on HS2/ peak Virgin ticket into Euston etc etc)

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Donate it to SELRAP to annoy tbtc

 

[tbtc]

Donate it to SELRAP to annoy tbtc

Well, with their amazing business case (the 6:1 ratio that they were boasting about, that we've sadly seen precious few details of), that should secure you £6,000 of rail travel*

(* - unless those figures were bogus...)

 

[user15681]

That would pay for only two and a bit months of my season ticket

 

[33056]

Get two 15 day 1st class Global Interrail passes

 

[Masboroughlad]

First class all line rover.

 

[Blindtraveler]

First class all line rover.

Same here, however I have a railcard, I could have a cupple of sleaper cabins too! Any remaining change goes towards a cupple of Rail and Sails that I also have wanted to do!↲

 

[D841 Roebuck]

14 day 2nd class ALR.

Could have a pretty good go at clearing the network doing this.

 

[Seacook]

Two separate 7-day First Class All Line Rovers (with a railcard) and maybe a couple of West or East Midland Day Rangers or LM Great Escapes.

A 14 day rover would do me in whereas I can survive two one-week tickets, say a month apart.

 

[EssexGonzo]

A quarter of a season ticket for me.

 

[Techniquest]

A 14 day rover would do me in whereas I can survive two one-week tickets, say a month apart.

I loved my 14 day ALR more than my 7 day ALR, but then two weeks of almost constant rail travel suits me just fine!

If I had a grand to spend on train travel, definitely a 7 day FC ALR. 14 days if I could top up the money to get it

Failing that, many day rangers/regional rovers!

 

[flymo]

Flog it and fly to Australia for two weeks.

 

[Lee_Again]

Ebay.

 

[overtonchris]

All lines Rover for me.....can't say the missus would be too chuffed though! 2nd Class fine....I can mix in with other peasants like me

 

[Julian Hornby]

I get a 7 day first class rover and get every ToC in the UK!!!

 

[Kite159]

I get a 7 day first class rover and get every ToC in the UK!!!

Does the All line rover cover Heathrow Express?

 

[alex17595]

Does the All line rover cover Heathrow Express?

Nope.

 

[deltic1989]

2 Standard ALRs, and drag the Mrs and kids with me.

 

[philjo]

Probably would do a 7 day 1st class ALR. Depends if the money comes as vouchers or cash - if that latter the rest would be used for an additional 1st dining trip with UK railtours! (I would be happy for the whole lot in UKR vouchers!)

 

[D6975]

That would keep me in regional rovers + FC advances to/from the area for quite some time. I can only usually get away on my own 4 weeks a years.

FC advances to/from Norwich and an Anglia Plus 3 day set me back just over £100 - excellent value for a 5 day trip.