Any train promotion codes out there?

cotsvale

Hi

I want to go from Cheltenham to Birmingham New St on 12th June after the rush hour and the cheapest day return I can find is £18 this seems a lot to me - i thought tickets were cheaper 12 weeks in advance? Can anyone help please.

Livingthedream

cotsvale wrote: »

Hi

I want to go from Cheltenham to Birmingham New St on 12th June after the rush hour and the cheapest day return I can find is £18 this seems a lot to me - i thought tickets were cheaper 12 weeks in advance? Can anyone help please.

Only the advance singles are cheaper and the 12 week rule is an urban legion more 8-12 weeks.

You can get Advance singles for that journey and they start from £4 each way but as it's Arriva XC and their a bit tight with those tickets and therefore the cheapest is £8 each way total £16 return but you give up your flexiblity and have to travel on a booked train.

KDC

Livingthedream wrote: »

There's line works at Bedford that date and its looks like St Pancras will be closed so try Splitting at Grantham and going to King's Cross
Nottingham to Grantham 05:50 £7 Anytime Return
Grantham to London KC 07:23 £13 Advance single
London KC to Grantham 16:30 £11.50 Advance single
Grantham to Nottingham 18:03 £0 Antime Retturn

Total £31.50 return per adult

There are other cheap options by splitting at Grantham but give yourself plenty of time to make your connection at least 30-45mins

Thanks for all the info. I may well change to the weekend before or after.

dzug1

cotsvale wrote: »

Hi

I want to go from Cheltenham to Birmingham New St on 12th June after the rush hour and the cheapest day return I can find is £18 this seems a lot to me - i thought tickets were cheaper 12 weeks in advance? Can anyone help please.

You can save a small amount on the walk on day return off peak fares by changing at Worcester and rebooking there

Otherwise, as already said, wait for the cheap tickets. 12 weeks just doesn't happen.

Arriva have supposedly released up to 12 June - if there aren't any they haven't filtered through to the system yet.

welshtony

Hi I'm looking for tickets from Liverpool to London on Thursday 28th May. Cheapest I can find is £65.40 (seems to be the standard weekday fare that week, which is half term).

Any ideas for cheaper ones?

Livingthedream

Welshtony, Virgin Trains have only released up to the 22nd of May for the Cheap Advance tickets for this route, the £65.40 is the off peak walk on fare and will be the same on the day of travel. Virgin trains are at the moment a bit late with releasing their cheap tickets apparently this is down to their timetable change and hopefully in the next couple of weeks the tickets will be out, Keep checking daily, I could give you a website to give you release dates but the Virgin trains date is totally wrong.

lisae03

Hello,

I'm traveling from Coventry to Poole on 27th April returning 1st May 2 adults 1 child with a family railway card. The route I am currently looking at buying is a direct service from Coventry to Bournemouth and then paying for the short hop from Bournemouth to Poole when we get there. The cheapest I am getting is £80 with Virgin and The trainline. I really was hoping to get it cheaper. Is there any other sites I can check or does anybody know of any discount codes?

dzug1

There are a fair few other sites you can check but they will give you exactly the same prices (assuming you ask the same question). It will be a waste of time. Given that the fare you have got is cheap advance singles I can't see you getting it any less by an extra split

However you go to http://www.fgw5pounds.co.uk/ and register you can get a £5 discount off the booking

It's 'just' possible that travel via London, possibly using megatrain for London - Poole, might be cheaper, but I doubt it sufficeiently to not be bothered to look it up

Livingthedream

lisae03 wrote: »

Hello,

I'm traveling from Coventry to Poole on 27th April returning 1st May 2 adults 1 child with a family railway card. The route I am currently looking at buying is a direct service from Coventry to Bournemouth and then paying for the short hop from Bournemouth to Poole when we get there. The cheapest I am getting is £80 with Virgin and The trainline. I really was hoping to get it cheaper. Is there any other sites I can check or does anybody know of any discount codes?

lisae03, the problem you've got is that the direct train from Coventry to Bournemouth is run by Arriva XC and at the moment their been very tight with their cheap advance tickets, in fact they've removed the lower tiers of the price range. However, if you did go via London the price each way would drop to £24.95 but a trip on the undergroud is required, its not a bad trip, one tube journey on the Northern line from Euston to Waterloo

lisae03

Thanks for the replys.

I could have got it cheaper going Via London but the saving wasn't really worth the extra hassle as we have two kids in tow! I have just booked now with the £5 Discount posted above - Thanks!