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Make sure you have plenty of change for the train ticket machines they don't take notes and don't seem to like credit cards either.
Be careful when you change trains for Bruges in Brussels. After station made a last minute platform change, we ended up on a train headed for Germany!
Tickets to Bruges (or anywhere else in Belgium) can be bought cheaply at UK train stations. As long as you are prepared to take local trains and the ferry.
My wife and I bought train tickets that went from Lond to Dover, crossed to Zeebrugge and the by local train to Bruges. Yes, slightly longer, but we enjoyed this old-fashioned travel.
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