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Any suggestions going from Coventry to Edinburgh?
Thanks.

alanrowell

k_cozens wrote: »

Any suggestions going from Coventry to Edinburgh?
Thanks.

Coventry to York changing at Birmingham with Virgin - £11.50,
York to Edinburgh with Virgin / GNER - around £11

You can also try Coventry to Newcastle, Newcastle to Edinburgh

lynsey78

Looking for a return ticket from taunton on 10th may to derby returning on the 14th may...

I have a disabled persons railcard, been invited to a wedding but need to find a really cheap way of getting there or i wont be able to go to the wedding-any suggestions??

dzug

lynsey78 wrote: »

Looking for a return ticket from taunton on 10th may to derby returning on the 14th may...

I have a disabled persons railcard, been invited to a wedding but need to find a really cheap way of getting there or i wont be able to go to the wedding-any suggestions??

£30 before railcard discount too much?

That's using 2 virgin cheap singles and being flexible about train times

lynsey78

oooh thats quite good what route is that.. i found it at £42 so the deal you have it great... can you please give all the info here....

dzug

It's a through train normally - occasionally change at Birmingham. Just book it on the Virgin web site or any of the others. I tried your dates and there were one or two trains where it was available. £17.50 one way and £12.50 the other IIRC.

http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/ is my favourite but Virgin's own can sometimes be cheaper - it offers half savers where the value tickets have sold out.

alanrowell

fififoofoo wrote: »

I get on the train in Chester as that's where the train has to travel through anyway, but my ticket is from a station in North Wales.

Try it and see!

It's against the T&C's under which the ticket is issued.

crazy_guy

alanrowell wrote: »

It's against the T&C's under which the ticket is issued.

If anyone questions it, you got off at chester for a toliet break and are now continuing your journey! Train companies breach their t&c's by cancelling their services on a whim, i'm sure being sly with where your ticket is from won't kill them

lynsey78

dzug wrote: »

It's a through train normally - occasionally change at Birmingham. Just book it on the Virgin web site or any of the others. I tried your dates and there were one or two trains where it was available. £17.50 one way and £12.50 the other IIRC.

http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/ is my favourite but Virgin's own can sometimes be cheaper - it offers half savers where the value tickets have sold out.

Chiltern railways dont start at Taunton so im confused...

Did you get the prices from the virgin site or the train line site?

dzug

lynsey78 wrote: »

Chiltern railways dont start at Taunton so im confused...

Did you get the prices from the virgin site or the train line site?

It matters not one jot that Chiltern Railways don't go anywhere near Taunton - you can buy any rail ticket from them and their web site is very clearly laid out and easy to use in my view.
I got the same prices on both sites.

There is one advantage to using Virgin's own site - if you can only get a value ticket in one direction they will sell you a 'half saver' on the other if a saver is valid on the train you want.