Era of the Biff wrote:
......and the rest. You'll be on the coach more than an hour and a half longer.
I travel to Birmingham on the train one week in four - its £69 return and is exactly two hours station to station which is approximately half an hour quicker than by car at at roughly the same cost.
Last week I checked National Express for a comparison, tickets to Birmingham are £10 (one way) so thats a good start - total journey time (one way) four and a half hours.
I don't know how they manage to string that journey out to four and a half hours, the worst B'ham trip that I did in the car saw me sitting stationary in roadworks on the M1 for an hour and a bit and I still got home in three and a half hours.
Maybe you have to push the bus all the way to Birmingham ?