First chance to travel on Virgin Trains East Coast today. Apart from not realising the Super Off Peak Single fare from Morpeth to London of £65.65 is a web only fare and can not be sold at the Ticket Office, thus having to pay £123.90 instead, everything went well. I was quite annoyed about the fare because I had double checked the £65.65 ticket is not an Advance Fare and is valid on any train on Saturdays. But I had failed to notice the very small print “web fare only” so paid an extra £58 for my mistake. You might ask why we hadn’t bought via the web anyway. That’s because I was waiting for £75 worth of vouchers to come from a previously seriously delayed journey in the last few weeks of East Coast, which I hoped I would be able to use (but did not arrive until the following Monday). But anyway, the journey with Virgin Trains went well, and the staff seemed very keen to retain their excellent standard of service.
