alt Hacker News> In 1957, a one-way ticket cost £85 (equivalent to £2,589 in 2023), rising to £145 by 1973 (equivalent to £2,215 in 2023).
Oof that really puts inflation into perspective doesn’t it?
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dgacmu • yesterday at 3:55 PM
That seemed high, so I plugged it into the bank of England's inflation calculator[1] and got:
> What cost £85.00 in 1957 would cost £1,796.12 in November 2025.
Not orders of magnitude off, but makes a little more sense this way. I wonder if there's a bug in wikipedia's inflation calculator.
[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
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layer8 • yesterday at 5:52 PM
There was heavy inflation in the seventies: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/gbr/uni...
£2,589 for an all-inclusive 50-day bus-cruise, even today, doesn't seem that overly expensive. (~£50/day).
So it's not just inflation, it's "that used to be cheaper".
I guess on the flipside, travelling by plane in 1957 (or even 1974), would have been much more than £2,589.