Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

lufcgirl

Hey,
Does anyone have any advice on travelling from Newcastle to Exeter and any ways to get cheap tickets. My friend lives there and I try to visit every fortnight (I have a young persons railcard and she doesn't) but still pay 92.25 for each return. I usually go either Friday/Saturday early morning train and always return on 15.23 direct service on the Sunday. Driving would be even more expensive!

Any help would be greatly appreciated

bbasra

Hiya,

i would like to go to madame tussauds tommorrow and i've printed the vouchers, however, we (two of us) will be travelling by London Underground not by National Rail.

What is the cheapest national rail ticket i can buy and will i need two or will one ticket suffice.

someone said it should be around £2.40 but didn't give anymore information.

pompeyrich

bbasra wrote: »

Hiya,

i would like to go to madame tussauds tommorrow and i've printed the vouchers, however, we (two of us) will be travelling by London Underground not by National Rail.

What is the cheapest national rail ticket i can buy and will i need two or will one ticket suffice.

someone said it should be around £2.40 but didn't give anymore information.

What area are you in? You can get 2 for1 admission if you show an Oyster card too. Click HERE for more info.

bbasra

Hi,

We are near heathrow. i can borrow an Oyster card.

pompeyrich

bbasra wrote: »

Hi,

We are near heathrow. i can borrow an Oyster card.

Sorry just saw your reply and probably too late for you now but you could borrow an Oyster card or get your own, from various outlets,instantly, they charge £3 deposit, which is fully refundable, you then add credit to it and when you enter or leave the station/bus it deducts the fare from the card. You can get back any un-used credit and the deposit.

Hope you had a good day and manged to take avantage of the 2for1 offer

Neonoptic

Hi guys,

Does anyone know if NXEC are going to be releasing any standard advance tickets for the 26th October? Right now advance tickets are available up to 7th November with the exception of the 25th & 26th of October and the 1st & 2nd November. Does anybody know why?

dzug1

Neonoptic wrote: »

Hi guys,

Does anyone know if NXEC are going to be releasing any standard advance tickets for the 26th October? Right now advance tickets are available up to 7th November with the exception of the 25th & 26th of October and the 1st & 2nd November. Does anybody know why?

Those days are weekends. The probability is that there is engineering work being planned. Advance tickets (if any) will be released when the plans are finalised and they know exactly what trains they will be allowed to run.

mjon3105

Cheapest Virgin Trains I can see on their website are £32.50 for FIRST CLASS (some trains £42.50) on Sunday 5 October Manchester-London. Bizarre but standard class is more expensive that day!

Hope this helps. Plenty at those prices as at time of this email.

Mike

Smick100 wrote: »

Hoping that someone who knows more about these things than me may be able to help.

Travelling from London to Manchester on the 3rd October, coming home on the 5th and are relatively flexible on the return time on the 5th as long as we are back in London before 9pm.

Using Virgin m-ticket option, we can get £7 singles going up on the Friday. Coming back on the Sunday though between about 10am and 11pm a single is £279.50.

No m-tickets available on the Sat or the Sunday.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Smick

Neonoptic

dzug1 wrote: »

Those days are weekends. The probability is that there is engineering work being planned. Advance tickets (if any) will be released when the plans are finalised and they know exactly what trains they will be allowed to run.

Thanks.

Just checked the website and it seems tickets have been released today, got my bargin £11 ticket!

mr_maniac

mr_maniac wrote: »

Hi dzug1 , thanks to you once again for replying - you're probably right - hopefully I'll be able to make that work as I think the prices change depending on time of travel (or at least they did when I used National Rail) so it could end up costing more than the figure I quoted - we shall see, although I'm hopeful the fact I'm travelling on a Saturday will keep the costs down a bit..?

Anyway, I've got one more for you (I'm a college student heading to University open days, which is why I need all these train tickets!!) - Eastleigh/Southampton Central/So'ton Airport/Brockenhurst (whichever is cheapest) to Bristol Temple Meads on Tuesday 23rd September 2008..

I haven't even looked into the options yet, as I only confirmed that I'd be going on this trip last night but give it your best shot (that's to anyone willing to help!!) and I shall be most grateful :-)

Thank you for your time and efforts!

mr_m

If anyone can help on this one, it would be fantastic - that's Eastleigh/Southampton Central/Soton Airport/Brockenhurst (whichever's cheapest) to Bristol Temple Meads on Tue 23rd September 2008, with Young Persons Railcard - arriving mid-morning, departing mid/late afternoon :-)

Cheers,

mr_m