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Rodley Mariner
February 28, 2012, 2:05pm
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Quoted from Les Brechin
How the hell do they manage to run these coaches and trains at such a cheap price.


You read the small print didn't you? The bit where it mentions that during the journey time you are legally owned by Megabus and can be rented out to sexually frustrated HGV Drivers at Welcome Break Service Stations?
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How the hell do they manage to run these coaches and trains at such a cheap price.


I think the later you book, the more you pay. Still seems ridiculous though when you consider the fuel and the driver's wages.

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You read the small print didn't you? The bit where it mentions that during the journey time you are legally owned by Megabus and can be rented out to sexually frustrated HGV Drivers at Welcome Break Service Stations?


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Hope you don't need to use the loo, it's £35! plus £5 per flush.


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Quoted from Rodley Mariner


You read the small print didn't you? The bit where it mentions that during the journey time you are legally owned by Megabus and can be rented out to sexually frustrated HGV Drivers at Welcome Break Service Stations?


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Quoted from Les Brechin
How the hell do they manage to run these coaches and trains at such a cheap price.


The 'megatrain' services are run by East Midlands Trains. Megabus and East Midlands Trains are both owned by Stagecoach. This means East Midlands Trains can fill up empty off-peak services by selling cheap tickets through Megabus. You'll never find cheap train tickets through megabus for any peak services.

The coaches are only dirt cheap for the first few passengers booking a seat. For example the first handful of passengers will pay £1, then the next few will pay £3, the next few £5, the next few £10 and so on. Since you'll usually get 40+ passengers on a coach this all adds up and means that after they take out the costs (fuel, drivers wages, other misc costs) they'll still make a reasonable amount of profit on each service.


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Must be working as they are expanding in to the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16881957




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Must be working as they are expanding in to the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16881957


They also have services in Canada as well as the US too.

When you first visit their site you have to choose either UK, US or Canada.


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When i was poor I used to use the London to Sheffield service every few weeks. It's not bad, it just takes between 3 and a half and 4 hours depending on the traffic getting out of London. It gets a bit uncomfortable after a while, obviously not as nice as using the train but great for what it is.
Goes straight to Meadowhall from Victoria, and then on to Leeds. Sometimes they stop at Watford gap to change drivers which can bump up the journey time. I don't really do it any quicker in the car now, and return that costs like £60 in petrol.


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Thanks for this thread, I always use national express for my other half to go back and forth to Devon, which apart from last year usually costs me around £35 (last year it was £9 one way deals)
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