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Why does booking a train ticket require detective skills? Splitting your journey, booking singles rather than returns and a host of other tricks all mean it can take hours to find the cheapest deal. I was pleased to hear GNER had recently relaunched their site, surely making the ticket searching a little easier. But having just visited the site, it’s obviously part of the Trainline/qjump family, and is as infuriating as ever. Surely there’s a gap in the market for a website allowing members of the public to find cheap tickets? In an ideal world, I would like a site where I could enter my start and end points and the day and be presented with the cheapest options. I wouldn’t mind if it took half an hour to chunter through all the possible journeys, as long as I could get on with something else while it worked its magic. Nor would I mind paying a commission to the website. So come on, you tecchie undergrads - how about working on the concept over the summer vacation?!

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