Last week my wife and I needed to pop into Lincoln, I checked google traffic and the roads were gridlocked, turned out it was the University open day for potential new students, so rather than try and drive in,we took the train from a station about 3 miles out.
The station car park has limited space but is free, there is no ticket office or machine at the station, so we expected to pay on the train, but on the short journey no inspector came along. On arrival in Lincoln the ticket barriers were wide open so we just breezed through.
My wife made the short dash into the high street, while I went to the ticket office, where I could of bought 2 singles for the return journey, but I was honest and bought 2 day returns with a railcard. Now if I had driven in I would of parked in Lincoln station car park, minimum charge £2, plus the fuel cost and hassle that day driving in, if I had bought single tickets they would of cost 50p more than the day return, so total cost of going by train was £2.25 and coming home, from departure to walking in our front door was 20 minutes, I think the drive home that day would of been at least 1 hour.
The station car park has limited space but is free, there is no ticket office or machine at the station, so we expected to pay on the train, but on the short journey no inspector came along. On arrival in Lincoln the ticket barriers were wide open so we just breezed through.
My wife made the short dash into the high street, while I went to the ticket office, where I could of bought 2 singles for the return journey, but I was honest and bought 2 day returns with a railcard. Now if I had driven in I would of parked in Lincoln station car park, minimum charge £2, plus the fuel cost and hassle that day driving in, if I had bought single tickets they would of cost 50p more than the day return, so total cost of going by train was £2.25 and coming home, from departure to walking in our front door was 20 minutes, I think the drive home that day would of been at least 1 hour.