{"id":11074,"date":"2016-04-21T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-london-to-margate-train-journey-that-cost-268\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T06:11:49","slug":"the-london-to-margate-train-journey-that-cost-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-london-to-margate-train-journey-that-cost-268\/","title":{"rendered":"The London to Margate train journey that cost \u00a3268"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe had tickets my brother had bought, but they weren\u2019t valid \u2013 and then the price escalatedIn February my brother and I planned a trip from London to Margate. He bought both the tickets with his Network Railcard for \u00a357.02 for the two but, at the last minute, wasn\u2019t able to go so I travelled with a friend.We were stopped by a Southeastern railway ticket inspector and told that in the absence of the Network Railcard and my brother, our tickets were invalid. We were told that we would each have to pay a full fare of \u00a341.30 per ticket (\u00a382.60 in total), on top of the tickets that had already been bought, taking the cost to \u00a3139.62 for the two of us. We paid and signed the paperwork we were given. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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