First ScotRail (08457 55 00 33 ; firstgroup.com/scotrail) operates a daily sleeper from Fort William to London Euston; one-way 'Bargain Berth' tickets, booked in advance, cost from £19.
A playoff berth is a lottery ticket, and may he with the most tickets win the most times.
There is no 'hop on-hop off' option but you can choose your stopover destinations when you book your ticket and berths on multiple trains will be reserved for you.
Couples, who won the Players Championship, the PGA Tour's unofficial fifth major, in 1984 and 1996, also punched his ticket for another berth in the event.
The rail journey took 16 hours, and a first-class ticket with a lower berth cost $95.50.
Mine averaged $110 a day for a second-class berth that I bought at the ticket window at the Khabarovsk train station.
There are three to four trains a day, taking about four hours, with a ticket in a four-berth compartment costing $17, and in a two-bed compartment $28.
The top two finishers qualify for Beijing, making an Olympic berth the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket.
Remember that children under 12 traveling with an adult get a discount of 50 percent on normal seats (or 30 percent on tickets for berths and beds), while those under 4 travel for free, without reservations or a seat assignment.
After being assigned R.A.C., or reserved against cancellation tickets on an overnight train from Pune to Delhi, which mean passengers are guaranteed a seat but not a berth, I watched as fellow passengers coaxed the train ticket examiner into finding available berths, using 500-rupee notes slotted between their fingers.
The mate's berth was then offered to Harry Stone, a local seaman who did not possess a mate's ticket but was told by Orsborne that he could use MacLean's number.
