Third Income,First Expense

I thought train tickets in UK are more expensive than in China.
Well,I was wrong again.Tickets differ in price according to the distance,so here I give an equidistance example. The one way 2.5 hours(from Shanghai to Nanjing) costs 93 rmb
(hard seat) and 112 rmb(soft seat) while virgin trains(from London
to Manchester) offer ￡7 and ￡9.And in UK you can get cheap train tickets if you book in advance like 2 weeks earlier.
However,in China,the earlier,the more expensive.