Most expensive ticket you've bought or sold

[W230]

Back in 2001 Virgin were doing some deal where you could travel advance anywhere for £11. I then dropped my tickets somewhere on route to the station and had to get an open return Preston - Bodmin Parkway as I had plans. Think it was ~ £105 though the nice lady did let me use my railcard so think it was £78 or something. Was gutted as was a poor student!

Edit: Just looked and the ticket is £169 nowadays!

 

[EbbwJunction1]

My annual season ticket from Newport to Cathays (Cardiff, not China!) is currently £656.

I say currently, as a few years ago, the cost was over £700, but they revised it, hence the now lower figure. I pay for this via an advance of salary from my employers which is repaid at source, so I don't miss the monthly amount.

I can't remember what the cost of the highest value leisure travel ticket I have bought, but it's nowhere near some of those quoted previously. I have spend a couple of hundred pounds at one time, but this would have been for a number of advance purchase tickets bought on line, with the various journeys split as much as possible to get the best deals.

 

[Class172]

The most expensive ticket I have purchased with my own money is a £3.60 return to Worcester, however the most expensive ticket which I have used/currently use is my scholars season pass to Worcester, which costs around £150.

 

[Deerfold]

With recent laws on money laundering does this not pop a red flag at a ticket office or is the process of ID required to apply for a season ticket sufficient to allow for this.

I'm not sure.

I need quite a bit of ID to buy my season ticket including authorisation from my
employer so I may not be a problem from that point of view.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Heard of a few colleagues selling an All Line Rover. Most I have ever sold (in one ticket) is a 1st class SOR to Euston from Goostrey £379

 

[Flamingo]

The most expensive ticket I've ever seen was a First Class All Lines Rover - nearly £1000 for a week!

We have discussed the male who purchased it, and the dodgy cheques/credit cards he used on past threads, I think!

 

[johntea]

The funniest expensive ticket I ever bought was a Leeds to Cambridge open return for about £60 - £70 after railcard discount.

Got to York (as this was quite late in the evening) and the ECML was in chaos! Eventually boarded a heavily delayed train which ended up having to terminate at Peterborough where some taxis got laid on.

During the journey I found my friends hotel wasn't actually in central Cambridge but the taxi driver was happy enough to drop me off there (Ssh!) and I got delay repay on the ticket too! So in the end, it effectively worked out as a profit in a weird way

 

[Scotrail84]

Lucky git. That's about what I take in two days!!



Best tickets I've sold - NMP-7day all zones 1st class, £225. Also had 25 Hungarians with six children on a saturday morning get on at Apsley, all wanting one day travelcards. Of course, it was easier to print them all a ticket than explain, over the language barrier that 1 ticket could be used for 4 people, and I did the lot as GroupSaves. It eventually spat out 31 tickets by the time I'd got to Harrow. Total came to about 190 quid, I think.



I've also had a school trip return from Woburn Sands to Bletchley, just to take the kids on a train. Total fare was only about 80 notes, sadly.

Most I've taken in a day?? 889.40 on an early shift. Anyone taken more than that as a Guard??

£1800 is my record for a days takings. Admittedly that included 6 rovers.

 

[Chrisgr31]

I win! I have had my annual season ticket uploaded on to Southerns The Key. According to my Gold Record Card my annual ticket cost me £266,800.00!

I am looking forward to my first delay repay claim!

 

[lincolnshire]

Cost of tickets.

I can remember being asked to collect two train tickets for a guy to go to meetings in London. One meeting was on Tuesday and the other on Thursday and he had to be there before 9am. The total cost of the two tickets was over £450 and that was about 5 years ago.

The best bit was he was a Network Rail employee, who in BR days would have travelled on a free ticket or pass for nothing.

Oh the joys of a privatisation; the the cost it brings for employees to get to meetings etc. Every little helps the train operating companies get by.