Train Travel

echelon101

I am looking to get to Stanstead Aiport from Southampton and back.

Ideally this is what would happen

Monday 30th - Southampton -> London (stay overnight)
Tuesday 31st - Liverpool Str -> Stanstead
April 4th - Stanstead -> Liverpool Street (stay in London)
April 9th - London -> Southampton

Can I do this all on one ticket? I don't think it works with an off-peak return as I would doing the 2nd trip before 0900 but might it work with an anytime return?

apt

If you can get to Waterloo for 8.39 (next available train is 10.39) you can book via Megatrain for £6 each plus the 50p booking fee for the 9th April. You can also get an offpeak fare for £13.50 for Southampton to London on the evening of 30 March.

echelon101

So that would be a no on using the single ticket?

dzug1

It would work with an anytime ticket but there are cheaper ways of doing it - such as those apt suggests

echelon101

The anytime return is from London <-> Stansted is £54 (with YPR)

Soton -> London = £16
Liverpool <-> Stansted = £19
London -> Soton = £6

= £41.50

Oh well I lose

pompeyrich

No to your 1st question, If you want cheap try Southern to London Victoria, takes an hour longer than Waterloo but no changes and a bargain £2 each way with a YP card, plenty of availabe trains all day on Monday and most of the 9th. You have to book on-line and travel on the train you book. Look HERE.

Voyager2002

Even an anytime ticket would not allow you to stay overnight on the outbound journey.

So I suggest you look at getting four cheap single tickets (Southampton - London; London - Stansted; and then in reverse).

alanrowell

If you are at Waterloo it would be easier & cheaper for you to go to Stratford on the Jubilee Line to pick up the National Express service from Stratford to Stansted

dzug1

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Even an anytime ticket would not allow you to stay overnight on the outbound journey.

So I suggest you look at getting four cheap single tickets (Southampton - London; London - Stansted; and then in reverse).

I thought the rules had recently changed to make the outward half of an anytime ticket valid for several days? Or is that an oversimplified view of it

echelon101

Monday 30th - Southampton -> London (stay overnight) £16 (I can't make the Southern times)
Victoria <-> Stanstead = £13 rtn with Terravision bus
April 9th - London -> Southampton £2 with Southern from Vic

= £32