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dn852k4

silaslang wrote: »

You can get a £20 return if booking a day inadvance.

How? I've never seen that available.

activist3

I am travelling from swansea to wokingham next thursday and need to be in wokingham by 10.30. I have followed the advice on here and have looked at singles and was wondering if any of you guys could check i have got this right and that this is the cheapest and that it is on the same train apart from the last change.

Swansea to Bristol Parkway 7.30am £4.50
Bristol Parkway to Wokingham 9.01 to 10.12 £31.60

Can anyone check this for me?:j

dzug

dn852k4 wrote: »

How? I've never seen that available.

You don't (unless you are very lucky) get the £20 return by booking a day in advance. You get it by booking well in advance. If perchance the allocation of cheap tickets hasn't sold - then you can get it up to 1800 the day before.

dzug

activist3 wrote: »

I am travelling from swansea to wokingham next thursday and need to be in wokingham by 10.30. I have followed the advice on here and have looked at singles and was wondering if any of you guys could check i have got this right and that this is the cheapest and that it is on the same train apart from the last change.

Swansea to Bristol Parkway 7.30am £4.50
Bristol Parkway to Wokingham 9.01 to 10.12 £31.60

Can anyone check this for me?:j

Yes it's a through train from Swansea to Reading, but Wokingham is 1025 arrival

But I can't see your £31.60 fare at all - £39 is the cheapest still available that I can see

djc2006

Can someone help me with the following my computer has decided to go on a go slow so taking long time
Traveling this friday after 13.00 from Leamington Spa to Blackpool
Returning this Sunday after 10.00 Blackpool to Leamington Spa
I'm getting £53 return if this can be done cheaper by splitting i would be gratefull of help
Thanks

djc2006

My computer has decided to go on a go slow so taking long time to search
I'm looking for the best price for the following
Travelling this friday 13.00 from Leamington Spa to Blackpool and returning This Sunday after 10.00 back to Leamington. price £53 return i would be very gratefull if someone could help and get this price down by splitting etc
Thanks

bottleredhead

Hiya, can anyone help me please, new to all this train travel stuff!

Need tickets for 4 people to travel from London Euston to Chorley in Manchester on Thursday 12th July to arrive in Chorley about 10-10.30

The return journey would be on Friday 13th July travelling back after 12 midday.

Thanks in advance

Vikki

bunking_off

In all honesty you might struggle to get anything too cheap because you'll be leaving London at peak hour, and Virgin are getting clever about trains not stopping at places like Rugby which facilitate split ticketing.

However, you'll probably gain by getting single tickets to Preston, then returns from Preston - Chorley, e.g.

0646 Euston - Preston arrives 0914, there's availability of Virgin Value Advance A @ £28
1249 Preston - Euston arrives 1528 (alt same timings an hour later), same £28 single fare.

It's then £3.70 each way Preston - Chorley.

Contrast with £227 for the standard return, or £45.50+61.90=£107.49 for the cheapest fare quoted if you try to book direct London-Chorley.

By the way, don't refer to Chorley as being in Manchester while you're there...won't go down well. It's Lancashire. Unless you consider e.g. Reading to be in London...

simplicity

hello everyone. just trying to get my head round this ticket splitting thing. but am at work and my heo keeps taking side glances at me

Need to go to Manchester from London. Any station in London but I think It's Euston it goes from.

One of us had a young persons railcard and I have a Annual season gold card so does that get me anything?

Many thanks.

pompeyrich

simplicity wrote: »

hello everyone. just trying to get my head round this ticket splitting thing. but am at work and my heo keeps taking side glances at me

Need to go to Manchester from London. Any station in London but I think It's Euston it goes from.

One of us had a young persons railcard and I have a Annual season gold card so does that get me anything?

Many thanks.

London-Manchester is a pretty cheap route, if you can book in advance and do not need any flexibility in the time you travel. Fares start from £12:50 each way, £8:25 each way with the young persons card but no discounts for the Gold card. To get these fares it is best to book ahead as soon as you can, although there is some availability tomorrow, also you must travel on the train you book.