Rail Travel: Tips on Cheap Tickets

sparkymark_3

Try this new ticket site for ease of use (and the current offer on GNER tickets for £5 single Advance tickets !!) http://tickets.gner.co.uk/gner/en/journeyplanning/GnerWebTISHomePage

Tuesday

I bought a Family Railcard when my daughter was born. It did mean I had to buy her a ticket too but the savings made it worth it. The ticket collector did question it once or twice but I was traveling with a child so was sticking to the rules. We went to Cornwall by train and saved a fortune!

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sparkymark wrote: »

Try this new ticket site for ease of use (and the current offer on GNER tickets for £5 single Advance tickets !!) http://tickets.gner.co.uk/gner/en/journeyplanning/GnerWebTISHomePage

Thanks for this.... have just managed to get three tickets from Peterborough to Inverness and return for a fiver each way...... !!!!! Bargain or what!!!

Direct services as well so no changing trains.... Brilliant!!!!

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Christa1

One step forward, when are you travelling? As it's direct I assume it will go via Newcastle, I am trying to get tickets from Newcastle on Tyne to Peterborough( then local train to Huntingdon) and cheapest I can get is £36.00 and I have been trying for days now?

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Christa1 wrote: »

One step forward, when are you travelling? As it's direct I assume it will go via Newcastle, I am trying to get tickets from Newcastle on Tyne to Peterborough( then local train to Huntingdon) and cheapest I can get is £36.00 and I have been trying for days now?

Am travelling 5th December and returning 8th December if that helps.... got my tickets in post today!!!

super_spender_2

Hi,
I live in swindon & planning to join work in london monument so i need to take the train from swindon to padingdon which costs 591.76 plus the oyster card to use in london which comes to £ 3.00 per day. Can any 1 tell me is there is any cheaper way to travel pls...

dzug

super_spender wrote: »

Hi,
I live in swindon & planning to join work in london monument so i need to take the train from swindon to padingdon which costs 591.76 plus the oyster card to use in london which comes to £ 3.00 per day. Can any 1 tell me is there is any cheaper way to travel pls...

You might find that separate tickets Swindon - Didcot and Didcot - London are cheaper. (Depending on what sort of tickets, the train might have to call at Didcot for this to be valid.)

And check if including zone 1 on your rail ticket works out any cheaper than using Oyster.

theanimallover

Does anyone know how to advance book train tickets? I remember a couple of years ago, you could do it on the national rail enquiries site, but I can't find it now. I have to pay for 3 adults to travel from Reading to Paddington to Green Park Tube on a Sunday....They are not travelling for a few weeks.
Just looking for the cheapest option...
Any ideas?

dzug

theanimallover wrote: »

Does anyone know how to advance book train tickets? I remember a couple of years ago, you could do it on the national rail enquiries site, but I can't find it now. I have to pay for 3 adults to travel from Reading to Paddington to Green Park Tube on a Sunday....They are not travelling for a few weeks.
Just looking for the cheapest option...
Any ideas?

Travelling from Reading to London there is no point - there are no cheap advance purchase fares so you might as well purchase them on the day and avoid cancellation fees if your plans change.

The national rail enquiries site will give you fares and links to the sites (TOCs, the trainline) that actually sell the tickets.

p1an0player

theanimallover wrote: »

Does anyone know how to advance book train tickets? I remember a couple of years ago, you could do it on the national rail enquiries site, but I can't find it now. I have to pay for 3 adults to travel from Reading to Paddington to Green Park Tube on a Sunday....They are not travelling for a few weeks.
Just looking for the cheapest option...
Any ideas?

Consider the coach from Calcot to Victoria. You can get a bus from Victoria coach station to Green Park in a few minutes.