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Chiltern railways - www.chilternrailways.co.uk are offering journeys from Birmingham to London Marylebone at £15 return (£9.90 with a railcard).
This is a turn up and buy ticket so no advance booking needed. Trains leave twice an hour so a good deal in my opinion.
I do not know when the deal ends so take advantage whilst you can - website has further details.
One thing to bear in mind, however. I have never travelled on the service, but I suspect that the engines driving the train will be relatively slow as this is not a massively popular network. Could easily be wrong about that, and I hope I am!
Chiltern railways - www.chilternrailways.co.uk are offering journeys from Birmingham to London Marylebone at £15 return (£9.90 with a railcard).
One thing to bear in mind, however. I have never travelled on the service, but I suspect that the engines driving the train will be relatively slow as this is not a massively popular network. Could easily be wrong about that, and I hope I am!
The Clubman trains have a top speed of 100MPH, but the regular Chiltern Turbo trains have a max speed of 75MPH.... not a lot of people know that ;D ;D
It is a good service and much more reliable than Virgin trains., that never seem to run on time.
Thanks for the tip about megabus! I went on their site and it looks like a return is £3 if you book some time in advance. Cant quibble with that!
However, just to defend the trains a little (not that they deserve it mind) a trip from birmingham to london on Chiltern railways is 2 hours 4 mins compared to 3 hours on megabus. (Virgin is quickest at 1 hour 40 at best but expensive if purchased on the day).
Also, it seems there is little room for luggage on the bus.
I think I just like the fact you can just turn up and go for a cheap price, because its rare that I am able to commit myself to a particular train, weeks in advance.
Chiltern rail goes to marylebone station from snow hill and is a very pleaseant journey. The metro from wolverhampton also stops at snow hill and they offer specials on combined bus rail tickets. For those from Warwickshire there is a large car park at the warwick Parkway station
8 of us went to the cricket final at lords and paid £7.50 on group discount.
Everyone needs to check for engineering work on lines etc just in case there are any delays forecast.
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Birmingham - London £15/£10 Rail
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