Kosten für eine "Advance Single" nach London von jedem Bahnhof in England und Wales
Ich habe den Reiseplaner von National Rail für jeden Bahnhof in England und Wales durchforstet und nach dem günstigsten Advance-Single-Tarif gesucht, der am 20. Mai 2026 zwischen 8 und 9 Uhr in London ankommt, mit einer maximalen Fahrzeit von 4 Stunden.
Das Datum war willkürlich, aber ich habe es ausgewählt, um den Preis für die Buchung eines Pendeltickets zur Wochenmitte einen Monat im Voraus anzuzeigen. Anschließend habe ich beschlossen, alles zu entfernen, was über eine 4-stündige Fahrt hinausgeht, da der Planer manchmal vorschlägt, dass die beste Route darin besteht, 5 Stunden über Nacht an einem Bahnhof zu stehen!
Tools & Datenquellen:
- Tarifdaten: Nationaler Bahnreiseplaner (geschabt)
- Stationsstandorte: Bahnlinie/Bahnhöfe auf GitHub
- Visualisierung: Python & Matplotlib
Von adamjonah
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**Tools & data sources:**
* Fares data: [National Rail Journey Planner](https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/) (scraped)
* Station locations: [trainline/stations](https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations) on GitHub
* Visualisation: Python / Matplotlib
I understand the colour scale is based on the available range, but really anything over £50 should be firmly red.
Any idea why Manchester is 2x the cost of places even further away?
Realistically, the stations around Manchester should only cost a few quid more than Manchester itself since you can split at Manchester. Same with Exeter
It’s a fucking obscenity how much it costs to go anywhere by train in this country. We’re never going to convince more people to go by public transport rather than car with these prices.
Last time I took a train from Nottingham to London, it was more than half the price to go to Grantham and change there than it was to take a direct service to London. I have no idea how this stuff works but it’s so bizarre.
It would be interesting to see this same data normalised for journey distance and normalised for journey speed.
The color scale being exponential makes it feel like the difference between green and yellow is about the same as the one between yellow and red, when in fact red is **4 times** the price of ticket where the stations are red.
I left the UK and it’s cheaper to visit my mother in Liverpool than it was from London. Often £15 on Ryanair. Bananas 🍌
The only place in Europe I’ve seen with prices similar to the UK is Switzerland, not the model of affordability
Any reason why Carlisle, Penrith and Oxenholme have been left off?
the fact that you can save serious money just by booking a month out is wild, but also kind of depressing that the „cheap“ option from some of those stations is still like £80+ for a one-way ticket into a city you might *work* in every day.
You missed all the stations in Cornwall on the line that ends in Penzance.
It would be interesting to compare the values that you got on a real availability test to the ones theoretically available: https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=EXD&dest=PAD&period=202605020
I’d love to see the equivalent for stations in other major cities – Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham etc. both in terms of how many stations can get you there in less than 4 hours, and also how the prices change and from how far out