Queen plays the poor card

At King’s Cross Station a dowdy, modestly dressed woman, her white hair covered by a head scarf, makes her way slowly down platform 11 towards the waiting train.  She reaches the first carriage door and climbs gingerly inside, the stiffness in her hips and knees betraying all of her 83 years.   She disappears from [...]

“£1000 for a rail ticket? A bargain”

The BBC is reporting today that Britain can now boast its first £1000 rail ticket.  This will, apparently, buy you a first-class return, bought on the day of travel, for the 1700-mile round trip from Newquay in Cornwall to Kyle of Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands. (Why anyone would want to make the trip in [...]

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