Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

Livingthedream

NEH wrote: »

That's the website I used and the cheapest was £30 singles. How did you get that result?

Just had a look and the £25.55 fares are still available for the 14th Nov, but unfortunately it looks like the £25.55 fares on the 4th have now risen to £30.95

NEH

Livingthedream wrote: »

Just had a look and the £25.55 fares are still available for the 14th Nov, but unfortunately it looks like the £25.55 fares on the 4th have now risen to £30.95

When I looked yesterday lunchtime all I was offered was the £30.95 goes to show the website displays different fares at different times....:mad:

I may have to travel back on the following Sunday now and they haven't been released yet so I think it's going to have to be an off peak return.

Thanks for trying.....

osborn99

Hi, if you want cheap tickets the only way is to change at station. I managed to get the price down to £17.85 one way from thetrainline

6th november:

Inverness - Aberdeen Time - 9.55-12.10 Price - £5.10
Aberdeen - Edinburgh Time - 15:10-18:12 Price - £6.80
Edinbugh - Darlington time - 20:00-22:14 price £5.95

14th November:

Darlington - Edinburgh time - 7.05-9.24 price £5.95
Edinburgh - Aberdeen time 11.27-13:46 price £6.80
Aberdeen - Inverness time 15:25-17:47 price £5.10

NEH

osborn99 wrote: »

Hi, if you want cheap tickets the only way is to change at station. I managed to get the price down to £17.85 one way from thetrainline

6th november:

Inverness - Aberdeen Time - 9.55-12.10 Price - £5.10
Aberdeen - Edinburgh Time - 15:10-18:12 Price - £6.80
Edinbugh - Darlington time - 20:00-22:14 price £5.95

14th November:

Darlington - Edinburgh time - 7.05-9.24 price £5.95
Edinburgh - Aberdeen time 11.27-13:46 price £6.80
Aberdeen - Inverness time 15:25-17:47 price £5.10

Thanks but that's a very long winded route and bit much travelling for my liking :rotfl:

osborn99

One more thing, if you're over 55 you can get a club 55 card, £19 return between any Scotland stations. So Inverness - Edinburgh £19, edinburgh-Darlington £11.9. That would make it £30.9 return

bcfc1710

Do i have a case for a refund or not?

Right sorry if this gets confussing.

Saturday just gone 3 of us had 09:00 train booked from Bristol to Manchester.
Now this train was due to start in Taunton at 08:12 where 2 of us live (our mate lives in Bristol)

However on arrival to Taunton station the train was canceled! We asked the office girl and they just said yeh cross country have had problems this morning so the train is just starting in Bristol now!

This gave us no chance to make it to Bristol for 09:00!!

NEH

osborn99 wrote: »

One more thing, if you're over 55 you can get a club 55 card, £19 return between any Scotland stations. So Inverness - Edinburgh £19, edinburgh-Darlington £11.9. That would make it £30.9 return

Thanks ironically i booked this morning and it was cheaper than last week so not sure if more advance tickets had been released.:undecided

wealdroam

bcfc1710 wrote: »

Do i have a case for a refund or not?

Right sorry if this gets confussing.

Saturday just gone 3 of us had 09:00 train booked from Bristol to Manchester.
Now this train was due to start in Taunton at 08:12 where 2 of us live (our mate lives in Bristol)

However on arrival to Taunton station the train was canceled! We asked the office girl and they just said yeh cross country have had problems this morning so the train is just starting in Bristol now!

This gave us no chance to make it to Bristol for 09:00!!

Did you travel on a later train?

bcfc1710

No we had to be in Manchester buy 12:30 so was no point, we drove in the end.

miller

bcfc1710 wrote: »

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However on arrival to Taunton station the train was canceled! We asked the office girl and they just said yeh cross country have had problems this morning so the train is just starting in Bristol now!

She probably would have endorsed the ticket and allowed you to travel on the next available service, but more than likely that would have been useless given your deadline.

My advice would be to send this to cross country and enclose your tickets:

http://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/SiteImages/Assets/3/Delay_Repay_Form.pdf