Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

dzug

Well they might buy the advance return when the singles are sold out.

Remember that ALL the ticket options are displayed - so you might have 3 sets of advance singles for a journey on sale at once at different prices. Only a fool will buy the more expensive ones when the cheaper ones are still available. (I've no doubt there are fools about....).

kacy75

Myself and two children 2 and 3 years are hoping to spend July and August travelling on trains all over the north of England. Is there a cheap way to do this ie travel for a month for a set price.

Hope you can help Kacy

dzug

kacy75 wrote: »

Myself and two children 2 and 3 years are hoping to spend July and August travelling on trains all over the north of England. Is there a cheap way to do this ie travel for a month for a set price.

Hope you can help Kacy

You could see if there's anything here:

http://nrekb.nationalrail.co.uk/promotions/rangers_and_rovers.html

Your children will travel free.

If you are not doing a lot of travelling each day then PAYG might be cheaper. Consider a family railcard for this (£20 gives 33% off fares, but you'd have to pay for one child at I think 60% off)

shopndrop

Thanks. Managed to get a Virgin Value fare.

kacy75

hi dzug thanks for the advice will have a look at the link, ubfortunately nr enquiries always seems impossible to download or is that just me lol We will hopefully be travelling around every 3-4 days as hubby is away at the minute and I didnt want to brave a holiday by myself with two young children so going on lots of day trips instead, and drag so poor unsuspecting soul along for the ride!

coral

I noticed something today, if you are travelling into London for the day on routes via Gatwick Airport, it is often cheaper to split the ticket there.

e.g. Brighton - London All Zones Tcard £20.00 (FCC)

Brighton - Gatwick - Cheap day return £8.00 (FCC)
Gatwick - London All Zones Tcard (FCC or Southern) £10

You should always use FCC towards London to save a bit of money, if you require Victoria change at East Croydon as the travel card portion of your ticket becomes valid for Southern services (or buy a southern Tcard and change at Gatwick)

8835

Please Please help me. My wife starts university this september and has a daily communte manchester to leicester. Its a nightmare cant find a direct train and the season tickets cost a fortune. Has anyone any solutions regarding cheapest tickets

Many thanks

burnleypingu

We are looking for cheap fares from Burnley to Hastings going on Friday 10th August and coming back on Wednesday 15th August.

The cheapest fare we could find is £117 for both which we think is pretty reasonable but we were just wondering if there are any ways of getting further discount on that price.

All help will be much appreciated

BP :j

dzug

burnleypingu wrote: »

We are looking for cheap fares from Burnley to Hastings going on Friday 10th August and coming back on Wednesday 15th August.

The cheapest fare we could find is £117 for both which we think is pretty reasonable but we were just wondering if there are any ways of getting further discount on that price.

All help will be much appreciated

BP :j

£25 a head each way via Leeds and GNER any good? Availability looks OK at the moment if you are flexible on times. And booking on the GNER website might get a small reduction on that.

I can't find a £117 fare - it would help if you said what the fare was you had found if only to know where to look for something better.

burnleypingu

the 117 fare is as follows:

BURNLEY MANCHESTER ROAD 11:28 Train NORTHERN RAIL LEEDS 12:39 13:05 Train GNER LONDON KINGS CROSS 15:40 15:40 Foot KINGS CROSS THAMESLINK 16:28 16:28 Train FIRST CAPITAL CONNECT BRIGHTON STATION 17:54 18:30 Train SOUTHERN HASTINGS 19:33


really long way round but no other options, they must be doing rail works somewhere as we normally go preston london euston, charing x hastings.