Train Travel - Best Prices

Sue50

I want to visit student daughters I can go anyday anytime but all search websites want you to give a date. I simply want the cheapest day to go for aparticular route. Please how do I search for this? Thanks for reading and help.

Livingthedream

Without any more details ie start and finish station it will be hard to help, but if you let us know this info I'm sure somebody on the forum will help.

My tip buy in advance, normally the further in the future the cheaper (upto around 12 weeks) and look for the not so busy days as in midweek or a Saturday.

And are your entitled to a railcard, if yes then get one or if you have a load of Tesco clubcard vouchers then use them on Redspottedhanky.com to buy your tickets (£10 vouchers = £30 rail voucher)

Sue50

Journeys are

Greenbank, Northwich to Leeds usually via Manchester
Hartford, Northwich to Nottingham usually via Crewe & Derby

No matter what I do I cannot get variations in prices for different days (just peak prices of course are higher). Also Leeds route is coming up more expensive November rather than next week or October.

Does this help? Can someone advise I have read all the tricks splitting tickets etc but I really want a website that I just enter the route with no date and let the website search for cheapest day to go say for both October/November if buying tickets today. Hope that makes sense.

Sue50

Just to add found "red spotted hanky" confusing prefer national rail

McKneff

I dont think there is any such website as the one you are looking for to be honest,
If only life was that simple, I know it used to have this sort of thing but hey, they call it progress.