We Go By Train

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Why train travel is good for you:

• UK and Europe is on your doorstep when you take the train. London is better connected than ever before with most major UK cities and towns directly accessible and now a quicker Eurostar route is opening up Europe beyond Paris and Brussels!

• Check out the cheap seats! Book ahead and you will get the best fares and a guaranteed seat.

• Save time on the train. For short haul destinations trains are often the quick option. By the time you get to the airport, check in, wait for departure, fly, disembark and then train/cab/bus into the town centre of your location – you could have got there by train!

• Let the train take the strain. Driving can be stressful one moment and monotonous the next. On a train you can read, listen to music and many intercity routes now have power points and free Wi-Fi internet connection.

Why trains are good for the environment:

• It will reduce your CO2 emissions. One person travelling 100 miles by train produces under a quarter of the CO2 if the same journey was made in a large car and one third of the CO2 if the journey was made by plane. (Source transportdirect.info )

• It wil replace domestic flights. It has been estimated that if the UK internal flights were to be made by train instead, by 2015 between 118,000 – 362,000 tonnes of carbon and 18,000 – 58,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides emissions could be avoided. (Source ecotravelling.co.uk)