best site to use to book train tickets?

thepeterleeknowledge

anyone got any ideas? refuse to pay for postage only one I've found so far who don't charge is first trans-pennine-express but the tickets are more expensive on there. please can someone offer any help?

Browntoa

first great western , pick up at your local station for free??

I can and not in their catchment area

thepeterleeknowledge

Browntoa wrote: »

first great western , pick up at your local station for free??

I can and not in their catchment area

thanks mate will have a look cheers.

Livingthedream

I use the East Coast website, but IIRC they charge postage if the start station has a Ticket Vending machine but London Midland trains doesn't charge postage fees and uses the same superior search engine as East Coast and if you travel by their trains they always seem to have an offer on.

Another good one is Redspottedhanky.com they don't charge booking fee, not to sure on postage fees, but if you have any Tesco Clubcard vouchers you can trade them in for rail vouchers £10 Tesco = £30 Rail and they use the superior East Coast search engine.

rich_shot2003

Whatever you do don't use the trainline site as they have booking fees.

jordylass

I just went on and checked, if your journey is on the east coast line it will be cheaper using their site, and you have free print@home for east coast journeys or ticket on departure (you can print your ticket at any station) is free for journeys on any line.

Newcastle to London 18th June (with railcard)

eastcoast £26.75
london midland £30.05

fares using other lines are the same prices, so if you need your ticket posting (and you're not traveling east coast) then london midland are best.

Picasso7

Heads up -- you can get a £5 voucher valid against any tickets bought from redspottedhanky.com You must have an account with redspottedhanky and a facebook account. Visit this web page to get yours.

I found this on the web and it says there are 44 left and the promo is valid until the end of this month. I applied for mine just now so it hasn't come through yet -- it says it takes 72 hours for the voucher to be applied and I have certainly noticed that it takes time for the Tesco vouchers to appear in my account, so this is probably the same.

Am posting this in various places on MSE. Hope that is OK.