Any train promotion codes out there?

jammy123

Can you tell me where i find the free railcard please?
I can't find it

pompeyrich

jammy123 wrote: »

Can you tell me where i find the free railcard please?
I can't find it

A link to it HERE sign up soon as it states 5 days for delivery.

jammy123

Thankyou so much.
Have sent for one.
As usual mse members to the rescue.:T

wackyjacobeany

Hi.. i sent for my family rail card about 10 days ago and have not receieved it as yet. Has anybody else had this problem or have you all recived yours.

thanks in advance

pompeyrich

wackyjacobeany wrote: »

Hi.. i sent for my family rail card about 10 days ago and have not receieved it as yet. Has anybody else had this problem or have you all recived yours.

thanks in advance

Glad you asked as nothing here either. I didnt get any confirmation either when I ordered so am getting a bit concerned too.

burnleypingu

I need help *newbie*

Myself and 4 other adults are going to be travelling from Burnley to Skegness on the 11th May and returning on 14th May

From going on the virgin trains website i can get a saver return for all 5 of us for £265. I then spotted the '£5 off each ticket' promotion and got the price down to £240.

But then i spotted a write up regarding 'ticket splitting' and it showed that you can get huge savings.

This is what i read

Special fares are often available for part of the route. Therefore by buying several tickets which in combination make up the whole route, you'll often massively sever the price; even though you're on the same train. To put my anorak on for a moment, don't worry, this is within the National Rail Conditions of Carriage and has been confirmed by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); the only rule is that the train must call at the stations you've bought tickets for.

An example to help. £174 saved from London to Penzance

For London to Penzance a standard open return was £234. This train stops in Bristol; so then I checked separate ticket prices. By buying four singles: London to Bristol, Bristol to Penzance and then for the return Penzance to Bristol and Bristol to London; the total cost was a tiny £36, a saving of £198. And remember this is for the same trip, on the same train, which you needn't get off!

Do you think i could get such savings with the route that i want or will i not be able to get i a further discount as i won't be on tjhe same train for the whole journey and i will be changing trains thorughout the journey.

Going on 11/05/07

Burnley (Manchester Rd) > Leeds > Grantham > Skegness

Returning on 14/05/07

Skegness > Grantham > Leeds > Burnley (Manchester Rd)

If i can save some money on the cheapest fare i found (£240) that would be GREAT!!!

dunx

Take a look at splitting your tickets Burnley => Leeds, Leeds => Grantham (GNER) and Grantham = > Skegness (Central). The Leeds/Grantham sector will probably be best with 2 singles, and the Central Trains bit is cheapest with 'Groupsave' tickets - 4 travel for the price of 2, and the fifth ticket is at full rate so 5 travel for the price of 3 here. The ticketing websites don't seem to recognise the 'Groupsave' offer but ticket office staff do. See the Central Trains site for details.

Bella_b

When splitting tickets.. say oxford - birmingham, then birmingham - preston.. do you have to do 2 seperate transactions when buying online? So that's 4 transactions if you're doing the reverse for the return as well?

Please help! Is there any way of doing it in one transaction. Thanks

burnleypingu

dunx wrote: »

Take a look at splitting your tickets Burnley => Leeds, Leeds => Grantham (GNER) and Grantham = > Skegness (Central). The Leeds/Grantham sector will probably be best with 2 singles, and the Central Trains bit is cheapest with 'Groupsave' tickets - 4 travel for the price of 2, and the fifth ticket is at full rate so 5 travel for the price of 3 here. The ticketing websites don't seem to recognise the 'Groupsave' offer but ticket office staff do. See the Central Trains site for details.

Just checked the GNER promo code and it doesn't work - 20% off.

Plus with the group save option included its still dearer than if i go with the trainline offer (£5 off each ticket)

GOING

Burnley to Leeds £10 each
Leeds to Grantham £8.40 each
Grantham to Skegness £6 each

COMING BACK

Skegness to Grantham £6 each
Grantham to Leeds £8.40 each
Burnley to Leeds £10 each

Total all tickets each = £48.80each

With the trainline offer *£5 off* it only equals £48 each.

Seems that the spliting tickets doesn't work in this case

BP

dzug

Bella_b wrote: »

When splitting tickets.. say oxford - birmingham, then birmingham - preston.. do you have to do 2 seperate transactions when buying online? So that's 4 transactions if you're doing the reverse for the return as well?

Please help! Is there any way of doing it in one transaction. Thanks

You can do it all in one transaction if by that you mean using one payment. When you have reserved one ticket you go to 'buy another ticket' instead of going straight to payment. (On the Virgin site anyway, I'm pretty sure - the others are probably the same)