Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

hongkong

London to Salisbury standard advance single = £26.70

London to Tisbury (village 13 miles west of Salisbury, therefore a longer journey) standard advance single = £9

I'm going to try this from now on, instead of booking a ticket to a major station, try a smaller place a few stops down the line. It only seems to work with advance purchase tickets, but then I presume that everyone on this forum gets their lovely cheap tickets in advance anyway!

hongkong

Any advice on a cheap overnight return London - Harrogate? Go up Friday or Saturday, come back Sunday or Monday.

Ta

hongkong

I've come to realise that the Natiaonl Rail website does not give the cheapest fares and I now only use it to find out which train company runs the route that I want to use, then go to the train company's website to buy the ticket, it always seems to work out cheaper.

hongkong

Sam_Bee wrote: »

I've missed the boat, foregone my own advice of booking when the price is right. So can anyone assist.

Friday 08 August.

London - Honiton
or
London - Tiverton

Leaving London between 14.30 - 18.00.

Can only find £55 single fares. Any ideas for cheaper / split journeys etc?

Many thanks!

Try southwesttrains.co.uk London to Pinhoe (three stops past Honiton) leaving at 16:20 = £27 single. Or go First Class on the same train for £39.60! But be aware of the possibilty that if there's a ticket inspector at Honiton s/he may not like you getting off the train early. If so, you could always stay on the train to Pinhoe and get a £4 ticket back to Honiton! Or Megatrain to Exeter for £15 and then get the train back to Honiton, that's a long day tho!

dzug1

hongkong wrote: »

London to Salisbury standard advance single = £26.70

London to Tisbury (village 13 miles west of Salisbury, therefore a longer journey) standard advance single = £9

I'm going to try this from now on, instead of booking a ticket to a major station, try a smaller place a few stops down the line. It only seems to work with advance purchase tickets, but then I presume that everyone on this forum gets their lovely cheap tickets in advance anyway!

Bear in mind that you are breaking the T&C of the ticket and could be in trouble if you get caught. As theere are no ticket checks at Salisbury you'd probably get away with it, mpst of the time

dzug1

hongkong wrote: »

Try southwesttrains.co.uk London to Pinhoe (three stops past Honiton) leaving at 16:20 = £27 single. Or go First Class on the same train for £39.60! But be aware of the possibilty that if there's a ticket inspector at Honiton s/he may not like you getting off the train early. If so, you could always stay on the train to Pinhoe and get a £4 ticket back to Honiton! Or Megatrain to Exeter for £15 and then get the train back to Honiton, that's a long day tho!

You could get off the megatrain at Honiton, come to that, if you are willing to break the T&C for the journey and risk the consequences.

mahoney9

Hi all,

I was amazed to see the great price that I've just booked for return a ticket from Edinburgh to Leeds for my son via Cross Country Trains.

He is travelling during peak hours in August and on their website, if you look in their "Summer Seat Sale" link, enter promotional code GIVEAWAY and it unlocks a further 10% off already reduced advanced tickets.

This really is a great deal and I got him a return for under £13.50 which really did please me.

So just so other members are aware visit www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/sale and enter the promotional code GIVEAWAY.

Please drop me a note if you have any problems but the website was easy enough to understand and navigate.:T

nutty1

rinso wrote: »

any ideas on cheap fares from Wakefield to Edinburgh?? goin 8th or 9th August, comin back on 11th... cheapest ive seen so far is £75...

£53 if you get two singles 8.47am leaving on the friday,15.05 on the monday

mr_maniac

Hey.. I think I posted back here some time ago, now I've returned with a new query!!

I've got myself a 16-25 Railcard, which is handy, but I am currently unable to find a way of getting from Eastleigh to York (or Southampton Central/Airport to York), on Friday 3rd October, for less than £65.65.

I challenge you to find me a cheaper deal - the cheaper the better! Please note that I will have to travel peak-time out of necessity :mad: , so anything that involves me arriving in York after about 11:30 isn't much help unfortunately!

Good luck, and thanks for any help I receive!!

mr_m

dzug1

mr_maniac wrote: »

Hey.. I think I posted back here some time ago, now I've returned with a new query!!

I've got myself a 16-25 Railcard, which is handy, but I am currently unable to find a way of getting from Eastleigh to York (or Southampton Central/Airport to York), on Friday 3rd October, for less than £65.65.

I challenge you to find me a cheaper deal - the cheaper the better! Please note that I will have to travel peak-time out of necessity :mad: , so anything that involves me arriving in York after about 11:30 isn't much help unfortunately!

Good luck, and thanks for any help I receive!!

mr_m

You will stand a chance of getting a cheaper deal if you wait for the cheap tickets to be released. The fare you've found can be bought on the day so you are not going to lose out. NXEC are not yet booking into October as far as I can make out.