The saga continues. We’ve been trying to buy tickets to get to Darlington for Easter. Not difficult, you wouldn’t think. After all, it’s still months away, and the train operators like you to buy early. That’s why they give you a discount.
Well, after weeks of it looking like it was going to cost £200 to get there and another £200 to get back the northbound prices have finally dropped to £13.50. Much more reasonable.
Except that when you come to book them you get the error below. You can have a ticket, but you can’t have a seat. How crap is that? It’s close to a three-hour journey, and that’ll be the busiest night of the year apart from Christmas, so there’s no way we can stand.
The rail networks in this country are a farce. Complete and utter.
