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Old Jul 28, 2016 | 12:29 pm
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Originally Posted by wanderingjock
Dont start on rail margins!! Oxf-Paddington 1st class £120 and if i have the nerve to travel into town at 10am and home again at 6pm I cant get off peak ticket, so i seat in a rickety 3 carriage, no power, no water "train" for that price.

Costs me more to get to Heathrow from Oxford than to my flat in Krakow from Heathrow! - topsy turvey world.
It really is a topsy-turvy world when someone would take the train to get from Oxford to Heathrow when there's a high-quality non-rickety 30-minute-interval coach service.....
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