Date: 01/08/2014

You can buy a train ticket for £3 from Birmingham to Edinburgh or £107 arriving slightly later. We highlight some of the extraordinary anomalies of Britain's bewildering rail fare system.

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Train tickets: the best bargains and the worst ripoffs

Guardian

You can buy a train ticket for £3 from Birmingham to Edinburgh “ or £107 arriving slightly later. We highlight some of the extraordinary anomalies of Britain's bewildering rail fare system