My peak-time walk-on ticket from Milton Keynes to Apsley is

shown along with my equally expensive coffee! At 67p per mile, the journey was a proportionally pricy affair, revealing how expensive rail travel can be if not planned ahead. The irony is, of course, that the concept of off-peak and peak travelling times has been considerably eroded since the pandemic as commuter train travel has become far less and looks like not returning to as it was pre-COVID