Nightmare Di, the system does seem very arbitrary on pricing
I know you would find the long journey difficult anyway (
) but with the pricing I know that when I went to Ely on the train a couple of summers ago, for my sister's OU graduation, I was having trouble finding an affordable ticket between Gloucester and Ely, until Mick tried doing it by buying separate tickets for each leg of the journey (I had two changes) and suddenly it was half the price
Madness as I was doing exactly the same journey, on the same trains................