| to be fair, 3 of you sharing a car is probably better than getting the train. 3 of you driving there separately would be worse.
I try to use the train for work when I have to travel down south, and probably manage just less than a third of my journeys that way - other times it is too expensive, or no convenient trains.
I do car share for between 10% and 15% of my business car journeys, though, through careful planning using a piece of technology we call a "calendar". Amazing stuff!
It's all about balance, rather than finding reasons not to use train / car share / walking / cycling, if we were all encouraged to use the most appropriate in combinations, such as large free / cheap safe car parks at out of town train stations, it would be a lot easier.
As for taking cylinders on the train, I've done it once when my car was not working, luckily I was only going for a fill. I believe UK trains do not like compressed gas cylinders to be carried - I hid mine in a wheeled case!
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