I once paid £10 for a First Class upgrade from Scotland on a train full of Rangers supporters. Bliss....
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Own up! Who's ever travelled in a First Class train carriage (and paid)?
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Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredNope, I've nothing to own up to.
I've travelled First class more times than I can remember and never once paid for the privilege.
Posted 7 months ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberI consider all public transport, including flights, to be third class. It's all shit, but some people sit nearer the front.
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI've paid a couple of times to upgrade to first when traveling between Dundee and Edinburgh.
I think the most it's cost was £4.00.Of course, it's always more fun when you move into First Class and the ticket inspector doesn't come round.
Posted 7 months ago # -
allmyownstunts
offlineMemberMe. I paid the £17 extra a head for me and my boy to go 1st class from Inverness to Oxford, first class. All food and drink included. He was having his Uni interview, and I was Tense Mummy of the Year. I was impressed by the people opposite who got wired into the free g&t at Aviemore (nine in the morning), and was appreciative of both the free wifi and the non-stop complimentary tea and coffee for the first few hours. The crayfish salad for lunch was way less yummy than it sounds, but the fruit and cake subsequently weren't horrible. A nine hour train journey made bearable by free, basic beverages and a nice seat. I don't know why anyone would go 1st Class otherwise. If that £17 supplement had been, say, £27, I wouldn't have paid up. (he didn't get in)
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberAh, but he's now at St. Andrews stunts, university of choice for the heir to the throne, and a stone's throw from one of his cyber-aunties.
I'd recommend NOT buying a 1st class ticket, but to pay the upgrade. It is considerably cheaper doing it that way, and as I said before, often the ticket inspector doesn't even come round...
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberNot a problem my lovely stunts. Tell him to stand at the starter's hut on the Old Course and wave a large white towel northwards. I'll send the microlight for him.
Seriously though, if there's ever a problem that needs dealt with quickly, just let me know and I'll do what I can.x
Posted 7 months ago # -
Ironduke
offlineMemberMust be highly reassuring for any mother to know that a local 'cleaner' is at hand for their student son... a ready supply of kleenex, strong coffee, emergency funds, laundry, rudimentary legal knowledge and back-street abortions should be all thats required.
Could be a lucrative side-line for you Jeni?
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWhereas you can supply the Ketamine and syringes...
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberAnd be wealthier than if we continue to follow our existing career paths..
Posted 7 months ago # -
Mary Evans
offlineMemberHaving just endured 2.5 hours experiencing the different interpretations of the "Quiet" carriage on the London-Bournemouth line, I should have paid the extra fiver to sit with the Daily Mail shufflers in First. On a related note, I abhor the principle of the Quiet carriage, it simply creates another reason for human beings to be dissatisfied with one another. Which was precisely what I told the callow youth behind me as I lodged his mobile phone in his sphincter somewhere around Basingstoke.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Lucy4
offlineMemberI worked in a travel agency, several hundred months ago, which could issue rail tickets. This enabled the staff to write out a ticket in first class, say for London to Edinburgh, but only pay for the counterfoil which would read second class Luton to Stevenage. The trouble was that this was in the days of British Rail so it was still crap, though you did get a better class of person to moan with.
The thing with Osborne, though. The only feeling I've had for the chap in the past is utter contempt. This fiddling on the trains has increased his cred rating, slightly.
Posted 7 months ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberI once went from Crewe to London 1st Class paid for by the company. It was shite! There had been a fire so we got no breakfast or any food or drink at all. They were a carriage short so there was no room to sit at a table anyway. I went and sat in 2nd class where you could still have a fag in those days. I must have been the only one with a 1st class ticket sneaking into 2nd.
Posted 7 months ago #
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