British Rail - Intercity - London To Sheffield - UK Advert

[Cazkumali]

I wish train fares were cheap today

[2carstommy]

Has anyone seen the Sir Jimmy & Sir Peter Parker British Rail 6 minute Christmas Day 1979 advert on Youtube?

[Trainbuff2008]

if they bought back intercity i'd start using the trains again then i know my money would get put into the railways instead of some fatcats pocket.

[LeamingtonSteve]

@Trainbuff2008 The FatCat Controller?

[zaroff2]

Fantastic, thank you!

[lewis986]

'Opening' by Burkhard Dallwitz...

Check out a longer version of this advertisement campaign by googling 'Intercity Publicity' and checking out the website that comes up.

[locutus12]

You Sir, are God. ive been looking for the name of this piece of music for ten years, I first heard the music when I was 8. I would say I love you but that would be going abit too far... :p

Thank you so much, and how the hell did you find out?? ! :o)

[lewis986]

@locutus12

Mate I was in exactly the same boat - I'd been looking without hope for ages and ages then one day in the summer I was watching The Truman Show (which generally has a great soundtrack) and suddenly my ears pricked up towards the end - it sounded familiar and then I realized it was the music from the Intercity adverts. Ran upstairs to Itunes, looked up the sound track and there it was!

Glad you've found it - while you're at it join the campaign to Bring Back British Rail..

[zaroff2]

Does anyone know what the tune this is, please? It's driving me barmy - after humming it at work all day I've tracked it down to this Intercity ad, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere else. I presume it's from a film? Thanks in advance.

[lborogay]

Many fares are now actually cheaper in both absolute and real terms than they were under British Rail, for example the old BR APEX (now 'Advance') fares have often stayed the same or gone down in absolute terms. When you factor in inflation they have, in reality, fallen in value. First Class and other Unregulated fares have, of course, risen rapidly - but somebody has to fund the improvements needed to the railways!

[TheAmazingDannyKing]

....Shit, that's cheap. It costs £57.80 one way these days.

[wdielwlairajmd]

No - Cheapest fare today is only £22.30. Not bad eh?!

Two second class Advance singles (with National Express' online discount). Must be bought in advance. Seat reservations mandatory.

Journey time from 2 hours 8 minutes.

[halfcymruhalfdevon1]

Would be better if you could just turn up and get a genuine cheap fare!

[lewis986]

These are good ads.