Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

johnieutah

Thanks for the advice everyone.

miller

Email received today from South West Trains:

From 24 May to 01 June, we're offering off-peak Day Returns at £14 for adults and £5 for kids, so make sure you don't miss out - that includes weekdays and weekends too!

Travel is valid on off-peak services from Sat 24 May - Sun 1 June inclusive between any two SWT served stations - except stations west of Salisbury (Exeter St. Davids to Tisbury or Warminster to Bristol Temple Meads inclusive).
Terms and conditions apply. See website for details.

I could not find the terms and conditions on their website when I just checked.

I would guess this will be available online only through their website and/or ticket offices.

silvercar

Quick tip. I was looking for advance tickets from Manchester to London the last weekend in August. Engineering work shows that the route is via Sheffield. Advance tickets for Manchester to London were available but expensive, Advance tickets for Sheffield to London on East Midlands own website were showing as cheap as £9. So much cheaper to buy advance tickets from Manchester to Sheffield and Sheffield to London.

miller

South West Trains - £15 offer

More details on their website:
http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/summer.aspx

lindiann

Hi I want to go from Bournemouth - Windermere Mon 22 Sept return Thurs 25th cheapest I can get is £138.20 is there any cheaper way of doing this don't want to go via London would go by coach but it takes about 11 hours is there any way of split ticketing this journey?
Thanks

dzug1

You can do it on advance singles for around £100 without splitting. Easiest way of finding them is to specify via Oxford otherwise you get a mixture of routes. You may get cheaper advance singles via London - eg one as low as £29.50 coming back


Splitting - almost certainly. I would try some combination of Basingstoke, Reading, Oxford, Banbury, Leamington, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Preston. Maybe Manchester. Some other ****** can work that out. (You wouldn't need to split at all of them - but it would be trial and error which are best)

lindiann

Wow got it down to £54.00 buying single and going via London and Manchester

lindiann

or £91.40 not via London two singles

miller

Just out of interest lindiann why did you prefer not to go via London? I know some people prefer not to use the tube. In your case it wont be so bad, straight up the Northern Line from Waterloo to Euston. You've probably still got time to get a Bitecard https://www.bitecard.co.uk which will give you a discount in The Britannia station pub upstairs at Euston (and somewhere comfortable to sit down).

lindiann

Hi just the thought of tubes and getting across London instead of changing at one station a bit daunting but I will try it you make it sound quite easy. Is the cost of the tube included in ticket or do I buy separately?