Any train promotion codes out there?

wealdroam

Poland wrote: »

Cheers for that. I normally book on first great western who have no fees but i cant see that fare on there but have looked at that southwestern site you mentioned and it has come up. Just one more thing is can that be booked to start from regional northern stations and not just main ones like Lime Street?

Only bookable from Lime Street.
Need to buy a seperate ticket to Lime Street.

I made a slight mistake earlier... that ticket is only valid on Virgin Trains.... not London Midland at all, or MerseyRail, or anything else.

Poland

wealdroam wrote: »

Only bookable from Lime Street.
Need to buy a seperate ticket to Lime Street.

I made a slight mistake earlier... that ticket is only valid on Virgin Trains.... not London Midland at all, or MerseyRail, or anything else.

Its strange that the ticket is only coming up on the southernrailway site. Its like the others are hiding it.

wealdroam

Poland wrote: »

Its strange that the ticket is only coming up on the southernrailway site. Its like the others are hiding it.

Shows on Southern, Southeastern, LondonMidland and East Coast websites.

Different search engine, but I don't know why it isn't on others.

dzug1

I'm rather puzzled

A superoffpeak return from Liverpool to London is £24.50 - walkon fares on London Midland trains only. An off peak return is £66.20 - any operator. Again a walk on fare

Virgin are offering advance singles at £29 a throw on many trains that day so £58 return

Superoffpeak fares are not normally valid on Virgin - if the Southern site says they are it's either screwed up or a special offer. Looking at it I suspect the latter. It seems to include a one day travelcard to boot. At £32.40 it looks a bargain.

wealdroam

dzug1 wrote: »

Superoffpeak fares are not normally valid on Virgin - if the Southern site says they are it's either screwed up or a special offer. Looking at it I suspect the latter. It seems to include a one day travelcard to boot. At £32.40 it looks a bargain.

But Dzug, see my previous post.
It is also offered by Southeastern, LondonMidland and EastCoast.

Even National rail Enquiries can be persuaded to show it.

Puzzling.

dzug1

wealdroam wrote: »

But Dzug, see my previous post.
It is also offered by Southeastern, LondonMidland and EastCoast.

Puzzling.

Who I think all use the same booking engine

I'm surprised it doesn't show on the Virgin site (that I can see) - after all it's presumably their offer.

As you say puzzling

wealdroam

dzug1 wrote: »

Who I think all use the same booking engine.

Yes they do.

dzug1 wrote: »

I'm surprised it doesn't show on the Virgin site (that I can see) - after all it's presumably their offer.

I cannot find it on FGW or Virgin either.

On NRE in only shows when you tell it to add a Travelcard.

Looks like FGW, Virgin et al, are not bright enough to give the travelcard option initially, and they have no option (that I could find) to add a travelcard.

dzug1

wealdroam wrote: »

Yes they do.


I cannot find it on FGW or Virgin either.

On NRE in only shows when you tell it to add a Travelcard.

Looks like FGW, Virgin et al, are not bright enough to give the travelcard option initially, and they have no option (that I could find) to add a travelcard.

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30688

seems to indicate it's a fairly established offer

supermum4

Hi can anyone help me get a cheaper fare from hartlepool or durham to huddersfield leaving on the 19th nov comming back 20th nov it's 2 adults and 1 child i have a family railcard, the best i can get is £54.40 but that not a flexible return and i would like to keep my options open about my return time. i did post this on another thread but think it may get a better response here, thanks in advance for any advice guys cheers

dzug1

supermum4 wrote: »

Hi can anyone help me get a cheaper fare from hartlepool or durham to huddersfield leaving on the 19th nov comming back 20th nov it's 2 adults and 1 child i have a family railcard, the best i can get is £54.40 but that not a flexible return and i would like to keep my options open about my return time. i did post this on another thread but think it may get a better response here, thanks in advance for any advice guys cheers

For flexibility you need an off peak return at £60.40 (from Hartlepool)

You can get it a bit cheaper (just over £50) with a Grand Central anytime return Hartlepool to York and an offpeak return on - but it doesn't give you much flexibility as there are only 4 Grand Central trains a day