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Old January 22nd 07, 02:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Penalty fares for sitting in First Class

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:20:14AM -0800, Ianigsy wrote:

To my mind there's a difference between first class on a long-distance
service, which is primarily aimed at the business traveller who wants
to/is expected to work on the train and doesn't want any distractions,


That clearly isn't the reason it exists. If it was, they'd not sell
child tickets, nor would they sell tickets to football teams.

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