Apologies for the quality, my 'print screen' doesn't seem to be working, but here a photo of the £99.10 ticket...
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That’s not a ticket from Bamber Bridge to Heysham Port though. It’s a North Country Rover, which is a ticket that’s valid from Bamber Bridge to Heysham Port but that is also valid for many other journeys across the north of England on Northern, Virgin Trains, LNER, TPE and CrossCountry.
Here’s a
map of the area of validity. As you can see it covers a large area - perhaps 650 route miles. Bamber Bridge to Heysham Port is a very small part of this.
Not only that but it’s valid for unlimited travel on any 4 days out of 8. Or less than £25 a day. So it seems to represent pretty good value to me.
In any case this rover ticket is never intended to be used as a ticket just to make a journey such as Bamber Bridge to Heysham Port, and it’s misleading to suggest that that is the return fare between the two stations and that this is outrageous. It isn’t the return fare, and nothing is outrageous. I am sure everyone would agree that it could be handled better by the nre website though. But NRE has unfortunately had no serious investment for years.
As others have suggested, you should buy the two singles or a period return from Blackburn to Heysham Port, as that’s even cheaper.