Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

KatieF

I managed to get to pboro for 16.50 return (central) and london for 10+15.20 (virgin) just by trying each and every day and randomly some cheaper tickets turned up!!! So happy! Saved about £30 there!

dellwear

This is a great (and until now) somewhat undiscovered site that will provide you with the cheapest train ticket, even if that's a split ticket.

It works like the screen scraping flight checkers (I think).

http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~finn/Train/

Wonder if Martin and the gang would be interested in helping the creator promote the site?

Saying that I'm not sure how well it will cope if it is just querying thetrainline's database! I'm sure they'll not like all the additional traffic.

jenny_f

Amazing!

I've always wanted a site like this! I use trains a lot and often don't know the best/cheapest route to take.

Thanks!

Spikey_2

The Cheaper Train Fare Finder is currently closed for maintainance

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Spikey_2

How come when you try to find a cheap train ticket .......you can't online.... but when I have been on the trains............half the seats were empty......?

Spikey_2

dellwear wrote:

This is a great (and until now) somewhat undiscovered site that will provide you with the cheapest train ticket, even if that's a split ticket.

It works like the screen scraping flight checkers (I think).

http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~finn/Train/

Wonder if Martin and the gang would be interested in helping the creator promote the site?

Saying that I'm not sure how well it will cope if it is just querying thetrainline's database! I'm sure they'll not like all the additional traffic.

Would help if it was up and runnning...................

sawanderer

Spikey wrote:

The Cheaper Train Fare Finder is currently closed for maintainance

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It was working fine earlier this moring... maybe it's the power of the MSE list again, maybe it's blown their bandwidth to smithereens?

:money: Martin :money: ... please investigate, this is an amazing little application from what I saw of it earlier!

sawanderer

As suspected... the webpage now shows this message...


The Cheaper Train Fare Finder is currently closed due to crippling amounts of traffic

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Hello! If you came here from a link on Google Groups then thanks for coming for a look!

Unfortunately, due to a massive increase in traffic since 9/3/6, I've had to close it for a short while so that I don't overload our poor departmental web server.

Please bookmark my page and comeback later if you haven't had a chance to use it yet.

If you have used this site before and you found it useful, please send me an email, particularly if it saved you any money, or you know of a saving that it didn't find.

Meanwhile, try this site for a cheaper fare: http://www.the-pev.co.uk/trains/tickets/

dellwear

sawanderer wrote:

It was working fine earlier this moring... maybe it's the power of the MSE list again, maybe it's blown their bandwidth to smithereens?

:money: Martin :money: ... please investigate, this is an amazing little application from what I saw of it earlier!

I emailed the team to see if they would be interested in helping the creator with it. Not too sure if they can do anything but would be good if they could host the tool like they do with the flight/call checkers. not had a reply yet, but I guess it is the weekend - we all got to party sometime!

robolint

I regulary travel from paignton to Southbury (north london) to see my g.f

I found that just by travelling via waterloo and just booking a few days b4 i have been saving quite a bit

Heres the fares so u can see

Saver Return with Y/P - £43.65 - Via London Paddington
Super Saver Return with Y/P - £34.30 - Via London Paddington
Super Adv Return with Y/P - £32.35 - Via London Paddington
Super Adv Return with Y/P - £23.23 - Via London Waterloo

Saving of £21.42!! Mite take a little longer but def worth it

Anyone any ideas on getting that even lower?? Any help wud be amazing!