Cheap rail tickets available for regular day return travel?

terrimolo

Hi,
I'm a student at Manchester. Next semester, I only have to go to letures for two hours on a Wednesday afternoon. I'm currently looking for work in my hometown of Hull. If I can get a job, that combined with only having to pay minimal board to my mum means its cheaper for me to live with her and commute to Manc-land every Wednesday.
I have a student railcard, but even with this, the cheapest rail tickets I can get are advance normal ones, with the morning ticket (unfortunately early enough to be peak time) setting me back round about $12 (thats pounds, my keyboards broken) and the evening one costing about $6 or $7. Does anyone have any idea if theres any kind of ticket I can buy, because I'll be going every week on the same day, same train time until mid-December.
Any suggestions really appreciated. Thanks a lot.

robt_2

I would say that less than £20 return from Hull is pretty good to be honest. Do Transpennine Express still do even cheaper student tickets?

dzug1

terrimolo wrote: »

Hi,
I'm a student at Manchester. Next semester, I only have to go to letures for two hours on a Wednesday afternoon. I'm currently looking for work in my hometown of Hull. If I can get a job, that combined with only having to pay minimal board to my mum means its cheaper for me to live with her and commute to Manc-land every Wednesday.
I have a student railcard, but even with this, the cheapest rail tickets I can get are advance normal ones, with the morning ticket (unfortunately early enough to be peak time) setting me back round about $12 (thats pounds, my keyboards broken) and the evening one costing about $6 or $7. Does anyone have any idea if theres any kind of ticket I can buy, because I'll be going every week on the same day, same train time until mid-December.
Any suggestions really appreciated. Thanks a lot.

I think you've already sussed out the cheapest tickets. You could try splitting at Leeds, but my guess is it will come out more.

terrimolo

oh well, it was worth asking, just in case anyone had any secret tip that I didn't know about!! Thanks for your suggestions anyway!