Cheap Train Fares guide discussion

wealdroam

Katy_omlins wrote: »

I booked advance ticket from Cardiff Central to Eastbourne. !The changes for all the cheap advance tickets are either Paddington - London Bridge or Paddington - Victoria.

I brought the London Bridge one because I knew the Victoria route is impossible in a wheelchair. It since turns out BOTH of these routes are wheelchair inaccessible they have offered me a refund and told me to make alternative travel plans. !I have investigated alternative routes and they are all going to cost me at least £30 more than the ticket I had that it is their fault I can't use due to their lack of access.

The ONLY reason I can not travel with this ticket the prescribed route is because the chosen stations to change trains at are wheelchair inaccessible. Which means as a wheelchair user I am unable to ever purchase the cheapest possible ticket between these two stations. This seems discriminatory to me. I feel it would be a reasonable adjustment that they should honour the ticket I have paid for by any reasonable route between the two stations I can get my wheelchair between (Reading then Gatwick) because both of their options are denied me. !

Do I have the right to argue this?

No, I don't believe you do have the right to put up that argument.

You originally purchased some non-refundable tickets, but then found out they were unsuitable.
Did you seek advice from the ticket seller before buying, and did they state that the London Bridge route would be wheelchair friendly?

You haven't told us who you bought the tickets from, but in my opinion they have done more than is necessary by bending the rules and giving a full refund.

Have you looked at Advance Singles from Cardiff to Southampton?
That's a direct train with no changes.

There are lifts at Southampton, and an off peak return from there to Eastbourne costs £24 along the south coast with one easy level change at Brighton.

Edit to add:
Maybe Advance Single from Cardiff to Fareham on a direct train would be even easier. It's a same platform change at Fareham, and an off peak return from there to Eastbourne costs the same £24 along the south coast with the change at Brighton as above.

interminal5

I was going to travel by train from Liverpool to Bridgwater to buy a new pushbike. There was I feeling the glow of a good carbon footprint choice, until the ticket price appeared. £90+ for a day return!!!! Truly breathtaking. I shall now have to chuck a few £s of diesel into the CRV and do my trip for around half the cost of a train ticket. It should not be this way.

Kite2010

wealdroam wrote: »

Not sure which ticket at £14.50 you are talking about, but if you mean the £14.00 Off Peak Daysave then yes you can.

Thanks

I meant the £14 daysave, not sure where I got the 50p from.

I will need to buy in advance and get it posted as there is no Southern ticket machine at Southampton

Kite2010

Is the Southern website always slow to load up the ticket booking pages?

terryw

Kite2010 wrote: »

Is the Southern website always slow to load up the ticket booking pages?

Very slow today....I have just tried. Usually faster.

Kite2010

I will give up and try again later on this evening.

Beetlemama

harryhound wrote: »

Can't help with the train journey, but have you tried staring at the ceiling ?
This confuses the automatic reaction triggered by your inner ear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_ear

The theory is that when we "naked apes" were hunter gathers and ate something poisonous, the resulting staggers triggered the vomit reflex.
Still seems to work with too much alcohol !

As someone who as a child once ate too much Easter egg before a mountain car journey, you have my sympathy.

Antihistamine for travel sickness, a one a day piriton (or 14p for 30 off brand!) works every time. I was a throwy kid, use to spend every drive on holiday with a dustbin bag rolled up in my car window, can't believe my parents never asked the doctor, I did, 20 years ago, and have never been ill since, my son has to have them now, but we do London to Skegness on the trains and buses every year with no worries.

abagri

im looking to go Sheffield tomorrow for a flyingvisiti top see a friend want to get 2pm the latest and leaving Sheffield around8/9

Anynone know a cheap way getting there via train? Discount code?Etc…

Many Thanks

wealdroam

abagri wrote: »

im looking to go Sheffield tomorrow for a flyingvisiti top see a friend want to get 2pm the latest and leaving Sheffield around8/9

Anynone know a cheap way getting there via train? Discount code?Etc…

Many Thanks

I'll assume from Peterborough.

An Off Peak return from Peterborough to Sheffield is £49.90.

However, an Off Peak Day Return from Peterborough to Retford is £31.90.
And an Anytime Day Return from Retford to Sheffield is £10.50.
Thus saving £7.50.
If doing this, make sure you travel via Retford.

Doc_N

I'm looking for some cheap tickets into London and back via East Coast.

Not too much bothered which day, but the problem is teasing out the £10 single tickets without going through the laborious process of checking each day individually.

There must, I guess, be a website that lists all the fares for a particular route (and a particular time slot) over the coming 12 weeks, showing the fare on each day.

I haven't managed to find such a site - does anyone know if it exists, please?