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Author: ConorConor Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:03
THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced after a
new contestant won the prize.
So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient Express
in super ultra luxury class?
No, it's the LONDON TUBE.
After recent fare hikes if you take the shortest journey from Covent
Garden and Leicester Square, a total of 0.26km and 43 seconds, it works
out at 1.5 pence per metre as you still get charged £4 for going one
stop.
A trip on the Orient Express from London to Venice works out at 0.13
pence per metre making the London Tube nearly TWELVE TIMES MORE
EXPENSIVE per metre than the Orient Express.
More here:
"The Great London Fare Rip Off"
http://tinyurl.com/y73kyk
--
Conor
"You're not married,you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:07
Conor wrote:
> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced after
> a new contestant won the prize.
>
> So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient Express
> in super ultra luxury class?
>
> No, it's the LONDON TUBE.
>
> After recent fare hikes if you take the shortest journey from Covent
> Garden and Leicester Square, a total of 0.26km and 43 seconds, it
> works out at 1.5 pence per metre as you still get charged
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Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:15
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:07:27 -0000, Brimstone wrote:
> Conor wrote:
>> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced after
>> a new contestant won the prize.
>>
>> So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient Express
>...
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Author: cupracupra Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:40
Brimstone wrote:
> Conor wrote:
>> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced after
>> a new contestant won the prize.
>>
>> So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient Express
>> in super ultra luxury class?
>>
>> No, it's the LONDON TUBE.
>>
>> After recent fare hikes if you take the shortest journey from Covent
>> Garden and Leicester Square, a total of 0.26km and 43 seconds, it
>> works out at 1.5 pence per metre as you still get charged
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Author: Capt Jack SparrowCapt Jack Sparrow Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:41
"Brimstone" hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0u6dna-BifnZqQDYnZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d@bt.com...> Conor wrote:
>> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced after
>> a new contestant won the prize.
>>
>> So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient Express
>> in super ultra luxury class?
>>
>> No, it's the LONDON TUBE.
>>
>> After recent fare hikes if you take the shortest journey from Covent
>> Garden and Leicester Square, a total of 0.26km and 43 seconds, it
>> works out at 1.5 pence per metre as you still get charged
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:55
cupra wrote:
> Brimstone wrote:
>> Conor wrote:
>>> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced
>>> after a new contestant won the prize.
>>>
>>> So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient
>>> Express in super ultra luxury class?
>>>
>>> No, it's the LONDON TUBE.
>>>
>>> After recent fare hikes if you take the shortest journey from Covent
>>> Garden and Leicester Square, a total of 0.26km and 43 seconds, it
>>> works out at 1.5 pence per metre as you still get charged
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Jan 4, 2007 09:56
Steve Firth wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:07:27 -0000, Brimstone wrote:
>
>> Conor wrote:
>>> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced
>>> after a new contestant won the prize.
>>>
>>> So what is this wonderful train journey? A trip on the Orient
>>> Express in super ultra luxury class?
>>>
>>> No, it's the LONDON TUBE.
>>>
>>> After recent fare hikes if you take the shortest journey from Covent
>>> Garden and Leicester Square, a total of 0.26km and 43 seconds, it
>>> works out at 1.5 pence per metre as you still get charged
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Date: Jan 4, 2007 10:18
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:56:20 -0000, Brimstone wrote:
> Steve Firth wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:07:27 -0000, Brimstone wrote:
>>
>>> Conor wrote:
>>>> THe worlds most expensive train journey has just been announced
>>>> after a new contestant won the...
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Date: Jan 4, 2007 10:21
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:55:20 -0000, Brimstone wrote:
>>> Which conveniently overlooks that fact that by the time one has
>>> walked from the station entrance down to the station platform one
>>> could have walked to the other station.
>>
>> If you're a tourist with limited geographical knowledge of London,
>> how would you know?
>
> Probably in the same way that would they know that they were near one
> station and needed to go to the other. By looking at a map or asking
> someone.
That would be the non-geographical map that fails to represent such things
adequately, would it?
Because for years my wife used to get a tube to Bank then the drain to
Waterloo, unaware that she could have walked to Bank from her office. She's
not thick, she's not a tourist, but unless one knows an area and takes time
to explore it on foot *first* one never gets a feel for the distances.
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Jan 4, 2007 10:48
Steve Firth wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:55:20 -0000, Brimstone wrote:
>
>
>>>> Which conveniently overlooks that fact that by the time one has
>>>> walked from the station entrance down to the station platform one
>>>> could have walked to the other station.
>>>
>>> If you're a tourist with limited geographical knowledge of London,
>>> how would you know?
>>
>> Probably in the same way that would they know that they were near one
>> station and needed to go to the other. By looking at a map or asking
>> someone.
>
> That would be the non-geographical map that fails to represent such
> things adequately, would it?
>
> Because for years my wife used to get a tube to Bank then the drain to
> Waterloo, unaware that she could have walked to Bank from her office. ...
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