Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

Abbie

evesham1988la wrote:

If your have or are eligible for a Young Person's RailCard - TransPennine Express who operate on the route between Manchester Piccadilly and Newcastle offer extra special discounts meaning a return fare for £18.70.

http://www.tpexpress.co.uk/mytpe/students.asp

A Saver return between Chester and Manchester Piccadilly would be £7.60

Total Cost: £26.30

However, if you are over 25 I will have a look at the alternatives.

That's a great saving! Unfortunately I'm not young enough though. Anything else you could suggest would be appreciated...

Abbie

sarahluv

abbie>the advance fares don't go onsale until 10 weeks before the date of travel. so hang on for a bit!

pansalar

The only apparently available walk-up fare for London - Kettering day return travelling out in evening peak is £57.00 standard return.

However, then I discovered that cheap day returns are available on the same trains for the shorter journeys. So CDR London - Bedford = £16.00 + CDR Bedford - Kettering = £8.40 = £24.40. This is also cheaper than the London - Kettering Saver return at £32.70. About half the Kettering trains (about 1 an hour) call at Bedford en route. The remainder call at Luton en route where the same trick is possible but the combined fare is about £3 more. Most of the return services serve Bedford.

If you wanted to return on another day after 9.30 you could still save money by doing it twice and throwing away the return portions, although you would probably get cheap day singles to save the odd 10p on each ticket.

kroads

On Saturday, 5th August is the cheapest way 4 singles Norwich to Peterborough - Peterborough to Leeds or with 'one' doing £5 singles from Norwich to London and return. Could it be cheaper to do London to Leeds singles with Virgin maybe? Any help would be great

pompeyrich

kroads wrote:

On Saturday, 5th August is the cheapest way 4 singles Norwich to Peterborough - Peterborough to Leeds or with 'one' doing £5 singles from Norwich to London and return. Could it be cheaper to do London to Leeds singles with Virgin maybe? Any help would be great

Hi again Kroads, wont be long now:j , looks like Peterborough is the best bet, the 08:57dep arr Leeds 10:37, or if you prefer a lay in, d 11:56-13:36a are available for £9:50 at the moment, dont reckon you will get much better than that and will save the need to cross London.

kroads

Hello Keith here the norwich fan needs some help booking my train journey from Norwich to Leeds..

Got reservation from Norwich to Peterborough
Peterborough to Doncaster
Doncaster to Leeds

Return

Leeds to Peterborough
Peterborough to Leeds

Virgin Care did the booking 6 people including two wheelchairs passengers came to £31.75 each. This was more than I expected. What do you reckon?

Cheers Keith

kaybees

i'm looking to get to london for the day on the 19th July (its las min i know),
its for 2 adults with yp railcards but can both get them if it means big savings!
The cheapest i've found is £124 for the both of us. don't mind what the trains times are/how many changes. but wait to be in london for a while.
Thanks in advance

pompeyrich

kaybees wrote:

i'm looking to get to london for the day on the 19th July (its las min i know),
its for 2 adults with yp railcards but can both get them if it means big savings!
The cheapest i've found is £124 for the both of us. don't mind what the trains times are/how many changes. but wait to be in london for a while.
Thanks in advance

You could do it for about £68, Carlisle-London, London-Manchester then Megatrain Man-Car but you would get less than 4 hours in London so probably not much good.

You could also have a night in London and come back the next day for about £60 using 2 singles Megatrain Car-Man then 2 singles Man-Lon and put the savings towards a hotel room for the night.

kaybees

thanks for that, didn't know about megatrain!

jenny_f

Hi

We're going to Edinburgh, not sure when but in august some time for the festival!

Wanting to know the cheapest way to get there. So far I've figured out train is cheaper than coach (national express) or plane. Two of us travelling from Huddersfield with young persons railcard.

The best I've found so far is
Hudds > Manchester on Student getaway fare with transpenine express - just under a fiver
Manchester > Edinburgh with mega train think it worked out at £12.25 - I know this could vary.

Does anyone know if there is another combination of tickets that could work out cheaper - do any other rail companies have similar student fares to transpenine?

cheers in advance