Railway stereotyping
Sep 26th, 2008 | By Ian Poulton | Category: IrelandChecking in online for Ryanair flights to Bristol and back next Monday, it was hard to imagine the way it used to be. Air travel was out of the question for ordinary people and train fares were a week’s wages; to travel from Northern Ireland to Somerset in 1986 on the slow and dirty British Rail trains from Stranraer cost £58 and took all day. The Ryanair return fare for Monday, booked at only a few days’ notice was €90.91 – about £72. Michael O’Leary has made my life better!…