I think it's a good place to use a bit of dramatic license. If you could work in some handwavey way of said 14 year old acquiring a ticket cheaply (because it would almost certainly cost over £100 for a ticket bought on the day, although maybe as a child he'd get on cheaper), then it would be much faster, particularly between London and New Street which is one of the fastest routes in the UK and only stops (ISTR) at Coventry and Birmingham Airport.
The trains aren't managed particularly well and are over-priced, but the coaches have their own problems, and I wouldn't use them at all if it wasn't for the fact that there's a bizarre non-stop service from London to the village next to mine... The number of crackheads around London Victoria Coach Station would probably give you a chapter in itself. Not a nice chapter, either.
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Date: 2008-07-19 07:30 am (UTC)The trains aren't managed particularly well and are over-priced, but the coaches have their own problems, and I wouldn't use them at all if it wasn't for the fact that there's a bizarre non-stop service from London to the village next to mine... The number of crackheads around London Victoria Coach Station would probably give you a chapter in itself. Not a nice chapter, either.