Road use costs!
Even though petrol and diesel prices have gone down a little from their high point it still costs far too much to get from A to B by car!
That is government policy for you!
And they want us to use trains as they are more environmentally friendly, so the obvious thing is to allow ticket prices to escalate [and become amazingly complicated] so that in some cases they are far more than twice the price of an internal flight!
That's life!
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