A scan from my notebook shows the four tickets that

I purchased from the guard on the pay trains (remember those?) that I took from Whitby to Darlington and back. By modern-day standards, a total of £4.34 seems pretty good value but inflation and forty years have taken their toll and that equivalent cost today would be £22.18. Just for interest sake, I have had a look to see how much this journey would be today. Using similar train times and walk-on fares (as my journey in 1980 was) and remarkably, it is almost half the price at £12.50 return, travelling as an off-peak day return. So that seems to have put paid to those who hark on about how expensive rail travel has got today!