I'm going to uni in southampton soon and my girl friend lives in tunbridge wells so I've been looking up train fare for if i visit her. The train journey is a similar amount of time to what I've been doing from essex, about 2hrs 40 minutes, but whereas i have been paying about £20 off peak and getting there at 10 am, the website says now I'd have to pay £32 off peak to arrive at 12pm, and if i wanted to get there earlier it'd be £60 or so. As a student i cant afford that as a regular trip, there must be some cheaper way of doing it without wasting all day, i don't get how it's so much more expensive for a similar journey.