My wife has just booked us return tickets to Liverpool

from Northampton for the grand total of £41. By way of comparison, here are our two return tickets from Frome to Bath for a total of £24! Agreed, the former are advanced tickets and with a railcard but nonetheless, it goes to show what a scandalous rip off some tickets for train travel on our network can be! Just as a back of a fag packet calculation.....

The return Liverpool trip is 16p/mile (8p/mile each) whereas the return to Bath Spa is 55p/mile (25p/mile each)!