Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

jenny_f

i'm wanting to get from york to stevenage on 3rd feb departing 17:00-17:30, I've looked and i can't find any cheapish tickets,

other options are to letchworth, baldock or ashwell

anyone suggest anything or know if the virgin coupons from daily mail will work for this route?

nwsurrey

Cheap tickets? Not so cheap with the Trainline!!!!

When I need to travel by train, I usually book my tickets on line in order to benefit from the most competitive fares. The Trainline is an excellent website to explore timetable and find out about fares available.

Just two things customers should be aware of:
- The rainline automatically adds a travel insurance (£2 for a return ticket) and you always need to remember to opt out of this option (bit like asking for a coffee and ending up with a coffee AND a muffin)
- The Trainline adds a credit card charge (another £2) if you choose this mode of payment. Nothing wrong with that in principle but the charge is not clearly displayed.

So if you don't pay attention, a £20 return ticket ends up costing £24 - a whopping 20% increase!!!!! Furthermore if you try to call the Trainline, your call is being transfered to India!

What's the solution? Use the Virgin Trains website to buy your train tickets: there is no charge for credit cards and the travel insurance is not automatically added!!! And if you are used to the Trainline web site and their speedy delivery of train tickets, don't worry the the Virgin Train web site is powered by the Trainline so same service, just much more customer friendly

jenny_f

jenny_f wrote:

i'm wanting to get from york to stevenage on 3rd feb departing 17:00-17:30, I've looked and i can't find any cheapish tickets,

other options are to letchworth, baldock or ashwell

anyone suggest anything or know if the virgin coupons from daily mail will work for this route?

anyone????

Roland

jenny_f wrote:

i'm wanting to get from york to stevenage on 3rd feb departing 17:00-17:30, I've looked and i can't find any cheapish tickets,

other options are to letchworth, baldock or ashwell

anyone suggest anything or know if the virgin coupons from daily mail will work for this route?

York and Stevenage are both on the East Coast Main Line and are served by GNER not Virgin.

A single fare with a direct train to Stevenage should be £22.50. You will need to change at Stevenage to get to any of the other stations you quoted.

snowy_2

Can anyone help me with cheap tickets from manchester to london april 23?, cheapest so far is around £50 each tia

dmarshbcfc

If travelling a long distance journey twice or more in a week and it costs more than £375 and no season ticket is available. buy an little publicised ticket known as an 7 day all line rover is available for £375. which gives unlimited travel on the national rail network (excluding heathrow express and eurostar)

niccy

hi, i wonder if i have got the cheapest tickets if anyone can tell me otherwise i would be most grateful.
Thurso to Edinburgh 9 feb return 11 feb
1 adult two kids (under 15) £69.50

with family railcard

thank you

evesham1988la

niccy wrote:

hi, i wonder if i have got the cheapest tickets if anyone can tell me otherwise i would be most grateful.
Thurso to Edinburgh 9 feb return 11 feb
1 adult two kids (under 15) £69.50

with family railcard

thank you

that is the cheapest i can find...

terri_06_uk

Hi could someone help me find the cheepest way to go from saltburn in cleveland to stoke-on-trent on the 24th feb till 25th feb. Or if anyone have any money off codes for trainline.
Thanx
Terri

ashlar77

A warning to all moneysavers!

I have been regularly buying a split ticket between Oxford and Sheffield. Buying tickets to and from Leamington Spa saves over 10pounds per ticket!

I have been doing this for months with no problems.

Today, I went to the FastTicket machine to collect pre-booked tickets. The second leg of the journey was not printed by the machine.

I queried this at the ticket office and they said the FastTicket Machines have (as of today) been programmed not to give out split journey tickets! The ticket seller did print me out the second leg ticket, but he gave me a telling off (why? it's a legal ticket!) and I nearly missed my train.

In future, if you are doing this, leave plenty of time to collect your tickets or get the tickets delivered in advance...