thinking of travelling to Tamworth to try out the Snowdome on Saturday 2nd Dec ...
thetrainline.com gives a return price of 36.30 gbp with a journey time of just over 2 hours ... if you play around with the timings, you can get singles from london - birmingham and for 10 gbp, and the return from birmingham to tamworth for 5.40 gbp, totalling 25.40 gbp ... saving 10.90 gbp !
however, using the viamichelin.com website it estimates that the journeytime (despite a bit of a complicated routing for a couple of pickups) would also take around 2 hours ... and the petrol cost would be 20 quid each way ...
so the moral of the story - even with 2 pax, it's cheper to drive by at least 10 gbp (32gbp if you take the preferred routings) ... and if there are 3 pax, the saving would be between 36.20 and 68.60 gbp ...
travel by train aint cheap !
for the record ... the train details are listed below ...
to get to the snowdome for 1.30pm (and depart around 4.45pm)
dep 11:03 arr 13:08
dep 17:03 arr 19:34
cost 36.30
to get to the snowdome for 3.30pm (and depart around 6.30pm)
dep 13:03 arr 15:08
dep 18:47 arr 21:35
cost 36.30
2 x £10 singles london to birmingham, plus £5.40 for birmingham to tamworth return = 25.40
to get to the snowdome for 3.30pm (and depart around 6.30pm)
dep 13:03 arr 14:36 dep 14:49 arr 15:08
dep 19:03 arr 19:27 dep 20:00 arr 22:32
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