High rail fares - limited to the UK?

High rail fares - limited to the UK?

Posted by grahame at 09:19, 9th September 2025

From a longstanding Facebook friend's feed

If you want to die in horror see Amtrak fares for the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The cheapest train from PHL to BOS (fares from here to PHL are fixed and I'd book that segment separately, because it won't show all the trains otherwise since Acela has no coach class) is $377 and not even workable because it gets in at 1:16am. That's one way, not roundtrip.
(There are no flights unless someone wants to do pickup at BWI or PHL)

300 miles Philadelphia to Boston ... £278 pound single at today's exchange rate

300 miles Paddington to Penzance ...

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