Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

Livingthedream

Livingthedream wrote: »

No, get a Return ticket from Yeovil Pen Mill to Castle Cary

Little mistake by me, you can't get returns Yeovil to Castle Cary, only Anytime Day Singles for £4.40 so you need to get a single there and a single back.

So £18 + £5 (club55 &addon ticket) + £4.40 +£4.40 = £31.80 Return

WaxiesDargle

thank you for that...do I have to go to Castle Cary or can I buy the tickets at Yeovil PM?

dzug1

You should be able to buy them at Yeovil PM - except National Rail say the ticket office is only open at weekends...... not sure I believe them

Buying them on the train is an option if that is true. I've done that in the past - but not for a complicated journey such as yours.

WaxiesDargle

cheers...I'm just off now to find out...wish me luck!

Livingthedream

WaxiesDargle wrote: »

cheers...I'm just off now to find out...wish me luck!

If it's closed you could take a drive out to Yeovil Junction station and buy there, just make sure that you explain that your starting from Pen Mill station.

WaxiesDargle

Blimey that wasn't too bad...the chap said that I was the first to ask for a club 55 ticket so he had to go through an information pack as he wasn't really sure how it worked..

anyhow I have to go from Yeovil PM to Bristol TM then from there to Cardiff Central and then on to Manchester Picc.

He kept saying that it was GWR and Arriva Wales only.

I mentioned Castle Cary but he said it wasn't cross country and he didn't seem to know about the add-ons, but I have to say he couldn't have been more helpful

the grand total of a return ticket Yeovil to Manchester Piccadilly

£23.00

I was waiting for him to ask for proof I was over 55...alas he took me at face value

Livingthedream

WaxiesDargle wrote: »

the grand total of a return ticket Yeovil to Manchester Piccadilly

£23.00

That's the £18 club 55 fare + £5 First Great Western add-on, didn't know they could extend it all the way to Yeovil (doesn't show that on the Arriva Network map)

You could if you wanted, change at Newport instead of Cardiff like what Dzug stated, will shorten your journey but I'll leave that choice up to you.

Overall great result :beer:

WaxiesDargle

yes it was a great result livingthedream and thanks for taking the time to explain it all to me

Margey

There's a new website called redspottedhanky and they are a new company which offers loyalty points for whn you travel. I booked to go to birmingham return and got there and back from london for 6.60 (with student railcard). If thats not cheap, I don't know what is!

If i had known about this website during uni, i would have been laughing. Rail travel is expensive, but not ifyou know where to look.

dzug1

Margey wrote: »

There's a new website called redspottedhanky and they are a new company which offers loyalty points for whn you travel. I booked to go to birmingham return and got there and back from london for 6.60 (with student railcard). If thats not cheap, I don't know what is!

If i had known about this website during uni, i would have been laughing. Rail travel is expensive, but not ifyou know where to look.

That £6.60 would have been the price on those particular trains whatever site you used to book. And that fare is not that new.

Though the loyalty points are a bonus.