Travelling short - with a twist

zaf1986

A solution that is within the rules!

Travel Reading to Oxford on an advance ticket, then back to London from Oxford on another advance. Seems counter-intuitive but much cheaper (a whopping £45 less if travelling first!) and within the rules!

Happy money saving everyone

jamesml

But a lot longer!

Could you travel from Reading to Paddington on 2 tickets, from Reading-Maidenhead and then Maidenhead-Paddington?

Presumably you could only do this if you got on a stopping service from Reading to Padd, rather than a non-stop service? Whilst your ticket covers your entire journey, I imagine they take a dim view on it since the fast train from Reading obviously doesn't stop at Maidenhead.

spikejrt

jamesml wrote: »

Whilst your ticket covers your entire journey, I imagine they take a dim view on it since the fast train from Reading obviously doesn't stop at Maidenhead.

That would only work if one of the tickets was a season ticket.

thelawnet

I'm not sure which Advance tickets you could get from Reading that would let you travel via London and would be cheaper than a single anyway.

redux

thelawnet wrote: »

I'm not sure which Advance tickets you could get from Reading that would let you travel via London and would be cheaper than a single anyway.

When I mentioned something like that I wasn't thinking of Reading. It's just that I thought my query seemed to be on roughly the same subject.