An Essential Guide to British Trains
In UK, travelling by train may become tricky if you are coming from a country where the railroads and trains are owned by a single company, or in my case by the state itself. There are plenty of train firms in the UK and although the ticket sales are unified under the National Rail scheme, you have to be careful which train to take, for avoiding fines. To begin with, in UK, you can buy any train ticket around the UK from any ticket machine or the website of any train company. For instance you can buy an East Midlands ticket from a Southern Railway website and collect your ticket from a Thameslink ticket machine, the system is unified and there are rarely any problems there. If you buy your ticket online, you have to bring the code with you together with the credit card you have purchased the ticket. Without the card, you can't collect any tickets, no matter how much you insist. There are three categories of tickets, specifying the hours you can use them. From most expensive to chea...