Travel to London from Swansea

projectjetfire

Hi all,

I am travelling to London on the 2nd October. Essentially, my trip is this:

about 7:30am
Swansea > Acton Central

8:30pm-ish
Acton Central > Swansea

Now, Ive done some searching and most of the directions take me this route:

Swansea
Paddington
Tube stations

So my best stab at it is a train from Swansea to Paddington return is about £50 and a off peak zones card for £5.60 (i think it is) for the tube travel.

Can anyone beat that or suggest anything else?

dzug1

projectjetfire wrote: »

Hi all,

I am travelling to London on the 2nd October. Essentially, my trip is this:

about 7:30am
Swansea > Acton Central

8:30pm-ish
Acton Central > Swansea

Now, Ive done some searching and most of the directions take me this route:

Swansea
Paddington
Tube stations

So my best stab at it is a train from Swansea to Paddington return is about £50 and a off peak zones card for £5.60 (i think it is) for the tube travel.

Can anyone beat that or suggest anything else?

A return from Swansea to Paddington is more than £50

However an advance single each way (booked on the FGW site) should be about £50 though - book now to get these prices.

As Acton is in zone 3, you'll need a zones 1-4 off peak travelcard for £6.30 - the £5.60 is zones 1-2 only.

Does it have to be Acton Central? You can easily get a local train back out of Paddington for £5.30 day return - but to Acton Main Line. It's quite near (within half a mile) and a lot simpler journey.

It would be worth pricing Swansea - Acton Mainline - it looks like the trip back out of Paddington is thrown in for nothing on the advance singles

projectjetfire

Hi there,

I used thetrainline.co.uk website and its coming in at around £56. Whats the FGW site?

My other question is I dont need to stay in Acton till 8pm, could I use my ticket to get to Paddington at say, 4pm (obviously depending on when trains run etc)

Tried Acton main line so I may well have a look to see if I can do that, esp as its quicker. Id be buying advanced tickets anyway but any help is good help!

KeithP

By using the FGW website you will avoid the trainline's fees and save 10% on Advance Single tickets.

dzug1

http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/

Will give you 10% on some tickets and not charge you a booking fee. So £56 plus fee would come down to about £50 with no fee

If you buy the day return from Paddington to Acton then you can use any train on that leg.

Not sure about the advance T&C for connecting journeys - I think you have to travel reasonably near the booked time on the local service - and ON the booked train for the main reserved journey.

If you think you might be making extra journeys I'd get the railcard anyway - it's valid to Acton Mainline as well as on the tube, whichever is more convenient.