On: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

[jen20]

Indeed, Bath to Oldfield Park was (is?) the most expensive train journey on a per-mile basis possible in the UK.

[walthamstow → jen20]

I always thought it was Covent Garden to Leicester Square on the underground. It's about 250 metres.

[jen20 → walthamstow]

Yes, seems that my info there is well out of date (though when I last lived in the UK, the underground is on a different fare regime).

[walthamstow → jen20]

You may well be correct anyway to be honest, people usually consider trains and underground as different things, and the underground is a bit of a cheat here because the stations are so close.