£19 is stupidly cheap, really. You can spend that on a seat on the Stansted Express.
Giles..
The £19 quid bit seems bollocks. I challenge anyone to find me a fare for that.
A real shame to see the service get pulled altogether.
The "sensationalist thread title" is in quote marks because it is quoted directly from the Independent's headline.Ignore the sensationalist thread title. It's unlikely to actually happen.
That's because I bagged themSo only Scotland to London for £19 and they have one seat in February at this price.
The "sensationalist thread title" is in quote marks because it is quoted directly from the Independent's headline.
Deeply dull, boring and pointless nit-picking pedant's thread is over there, somewhere --->I can't see any quote marks around "Highland sleeper faces the axe".
Petition: Save our Trains
The National Transport Agency, Transport Scotland, have published a consultation threatening to axe the Highland Chieftain and the Highland Sleeper, the only direct links between London and Inverness.
http://www.transformscotland.org.uk/petition-save-our-trains.aspx
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...aning-symbol-that-serco-has-made-into-a-brandAn elegy for the sleeper train – a waning symbol that Serco has made into a brand
Few of those sleeper trains survive. The story is the same across Europe. Expressways, cheap flights and high-speed lines that halve daylight journey times: the combination has spoiled the market for overnight trains, so that even the most famous of them, Le Train Bleu, has been replaced by a sadly reduced service. Britain should be grateful, then, for the six services it has managed to retain – from London to Penzance, Aberdeen, Inverness, Fort William, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The franchise for the Scottish five, known collectively as the Caledonian sleeper, is in the gift of the Scottish government andwas acquired last year by the outsourcing giant Serco, whose 100,000 employees also operate the Trident nuclear submarine base on the Clyde, the Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire and Walsall’s local education authority.
Interesting piece in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...aning-symbol-that-serco-has-made-into-a-brand
"Proper"?Returned to london on the fort William sleeper last night. Not much changed under the new ownership. Makes a stop at glasgow queen st now for the "day" passengers in the seated coach, a welcome and sensible move.
Still without doubt the best rail journey in the uk. Will be sad when the slightly creaky BR stock gets replaced in a couple of years. But in the meantime I'll take all the opportunities to travel on what's pretty much the last proper train in the country.