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York Mariner
February 28, 2012, 10:54pm
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It is not just students who use it. My wife and went from York to St Pancreas and return for £4.  A very good service.

The bus from York goes to a brand new rail station at Nottingham Parkway, just off the motorway.  The bus was fine, the train was ok.  Coming back was quicker.  You have to fit in around 2 trains/buses per day.

The only downside Les is that if the bus breaksdown, you have to get out and push.  


Yes, that's the route I'm taking going down to London on Tues for the Hayes game & back on Wed for £6-50, like Les says how the hell can they do it, but that will do for me !
By the way I ain't pushing no bus, women & children first  
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February 29, 2012, 2:49am

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Have picked Eastendmariner and co up from scunt tesco for Town at home. It cost them 20 shillings each, TWENTY SHILLINGS, from London. Cost me more in petrol keeping the motor ticking over waiting to pick 'em up. Very good service Les, and genuine.
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Yes, that's the route I'm taking going down to London on Tues for the Hayes game & back on Wed for £6-50, like Les says how the hell can they do it, but that will do for me !

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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.

Or just read this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management


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February 29, 2012, 8:23pm
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Hope you don't need to use the loo, it's £35! plus £5 per flush.


Got an idea how to save a fiver.......



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February 29, 2012, 9:57pm
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Or just read this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management


Interesting stuff, I read it word for word whilst snoozing for the first 85mins of the England game, yeh right  . To quote ' every day is a learning day '
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