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1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

Are the Sunday rail strikes off for good as far as we know? Looking to book for next month.

Booked for Sunday 12th December Edinburgh to Inverness but email this morning to say rail replacement from Edinburgh to Perth due to engineering works. Train cancelled and booked the megabus instead. 

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Just now, Honest Saints Fan said:

Booked for Sunday 12th December Edinburgh to Inverness but email this morning to say rail replacement from Edinburgh to Perth due to engineering works. Train cancelled and booked the megabus instead. 

FFS. All the Sunday tickets are full price on the Aberdeen line, no advance tickets whatsover. c***s should be making them half price after fucking us around for months instead of settling the strike.

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On the train from Perth to Glasgow. Two carriages. Every seat taken in Perth and folk already having to stand. Next stop Gleneagles. Loads more get on including prams. Trains already packed and we’ve got places like Stirling and Falkirk to go - presumably the majority of people are going to Glasgow. I hate Scotrail.

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32 minutes ago, jamamafegan said:

On the train from Perth to Glasgow. Two carriages. Every seat taken in Perth and folk already having to stand. Next stop Gleneagles. Loads more get on including prams. Trains already packed and we’ve got places like Stirling and Falkirk to go - presumably the majority of people are going to Glasgow. I hate Scotrail.

Used to get that all the time if I was going back to Glasgow from my folks' when I was at uni, especially on days the OF were playing.  More than once had to just sack off the first train and hope the next was quieter. My mate came from Perth for the Israel game a few weeks back and (on a train coming from Aberdeen arriving 2 hours before the game) there were 2 carriages. Madness 

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Used to get that all the time if I was going back to Glasgow from my folks' when I was at uni, especially on days the OF were playing.  More than once had to just sack off the first train and hope the next was quieter. My mate came from Perth for the Israel game a few weeks back and (on a train coming from Aberdeen arriving 2 hours before the game) there were 2 carriages. Madness 


Being told that the train in Perth for the rugby today had 4 carriages. Not sure if that’s true but it wouldn’t surprise me. Rarely are football matches taken into consideration when Scotrail divvy up their carriages - or whatever the f**k it is they do.
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Last day tomorrow for £10 returns with Club50. Stopping the night in Huntly after a game next month, was cheaper to get two returns from Inverness and Huntly leaving tomorrow, which I won't be using, to get the return halves for Inverness to Huntly on the Saturday and Huntly to Inverness on the Sunday in December. :1eye

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4 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Last day tomorrow for £10 returns with Club50. Stopping the night in Huntly after a game next month, was cheaper to get two returns from Inverness and Huntly leaving tomorrow, which I won't be using, to get the return halves for Inverness to Huntly on the Saturday and Huntly to Inverness on the Sunday in December. :1eye

Aha clever.

I got a £10 Stonie - Glasgow return for the fitba on Monday....then plans changed and I stayed the Monday night in Edinburgh (so got £10 return to there) Looks as if both tickets are still active on my app.  It's a great deal.

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On 14/11/2021 at 13:00, welshbairn said:

FFS. All the Sunday tickets are full price on the Aberdeen line, no advance tickets whatsover. c***s should be making them half price after fucking us around for months instead of settling the strike.

Noticed a lack of advance tickets over the last year. Across the UK too.

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On 21/11/2021 at 08:50, Ekhibee88 said:

Noticed a lack of advance tickets over the last year. Across the UK too.

They stopped selling advance tickets for the majority of the past year as the government recommendation was not to travel unless absolutely necessary. 

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  • 4 weeks later...

The line below had me stunned. Folk actually pay that?! And what chance does greener transport have when this is the cost?

The announcement means price of a season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh will go up by £162 to £4,430

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The line below had me stunned. Folk actually pay that?! And what chance does greener transport have when this is the cost?
The announcement means price of a season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh will go up by £162 to £4,430


Yep, people do pay it. My mate was one of them up until home working kicked in last year. It sounds ridiculous, but it worked out cheaper than taking the car and was generally quicker too. As well as the cost of circa 400 miles a week worth of fuel, the cost of parking on top of that made the car more expensive.
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15 minutes ago, Chicken Wing said:
26 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
You know how train tickets are already massively overpriced? Well guess what is happening next year!
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59703531

Are they?

Haha, not for you my friend! But for the rest of us they often are! Although the Split Ticket site is a saviour.

14 minutes ago, peasy23 said:


 

 


Yep, people do pay it. My mate was one of them up until home working kicked in last year. It sounds ridiculous, but it worked out cheaper than taking the car and was generally quicker too. As well as the cost of circa 400 miles a week worth of fuel, the cost of parking on top of that made the car more expensive.

 

That's mental! It's good that the train is cheaper, but it should be so much cheaper than £4200 a year. Car sharing can be just as 'green', if not greener if it's an electric vehicle, so it's crazy that the cost is so much.

 But rampant greed is why the planet is ultimately doomed, from the low level greed to the high level industrial greed. Greed has fucked us and doomed us.

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