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Why It's Cheaper to Fly Than to Take the Train in the U.K.

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by Lilit Marcus,
Photo: Courtesy of CNP Montrose

One blogger’s money-saving flight from Britain to Germany and back has made us rethink our travel plans.

Great Britain’s national railway service may be efficient, but that doesn’t make it affordable: Just this month The Telegraph reported that fares were rising three times as quickly as the average salary in the U.K. Rather than just grumbling about costs, one British blogger crunched numbers and realized that he could take a mini-vacation to Berlin for less than it would cost to take a four-hour train trip between two towns in the same country.

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Source : HuffingtonPost.Com