Taxi Vs Train

Through my own investigations I can confirm that is is now cheaper to take a train 50 km from Barking in London to Southend Central by the coast in Britain than by taxi. 

With an Uber Taxi, it gets cheaper per person as the passengers increase up to 4 passengers, then the price goes up because you need a more expensive 6 seater Uber. But the train is cheaper in every metric. 

With 3 or more Adults, each person is paying just £6.05 because of Group save supplied by the c2c train line. 

With 4 passengers, an Uber ride from barking station costs just £15 per person because the taxi costs £60 regardless of the number of passengers. However, one passenger is only paying £9.10 on C2C so it is cheaper by train in every way. If your just one passenger or 6, it is cheaper than the cheapest configuration on Uber taxi although is gets close with 4 passengers. 

The Uber is slightly more convenient because you can chose the pickup and dropoff point and with 4 passengers, you're only paying £8.95 more than the train. 

The train is cheaper still when you add return tickets and rail cards. 

Train Vs Taxi

If you were going from farringdon in London to Brighton, what is better? Uber or Train. 

If four adults were travelling together, the prices would be about the same. 

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A taxi going from London to Brighton costs roughly £100 (£25 each). 

A train ticket for 4 passengers going from London to Farringdon would cost about £100 (£25 for each passenger) 

If you had fewer passengers, the taxi would still cost £100. It would only be the same price and slightly more convenient if you were going as a small group. 

This observation doesn't account for rail cards and discount codes. 

Trains move a lot faster than cars and they sometimes give you cheaper return tickets, however some Uber cars can take more than 4 passengers, some can take 6 or 7.  

Pier Trains

There are three piers in Britain that are known to have working railed trains running on them. The most famous one is Southend on sea. The pier itself is extremely long 2.15 km (1.34 miles) and the train will take you most of the way across the pier. They claim to be the longest pleasure pier in the world. From my experience, the starting platform at the beginning of the pier has the look and feel of an old subsurface metropolitan subway station. 

The Ryde Pier on the Isle of wight has a more practical pier train. It is used to bring people to the catamaran ferry that goes back to the mainland and the bring people from the ferry back to the coast. 

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Hyther pier in Hampshire is the oldest working pier train line in the world. 

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