National Rail Enquiries pricing incorrect?

Rosemary7391

Hi everyone,

I'm booking train tickets and usually go through https://www.nationalrail.co.uk. However for the journey I want the price on national rail and the price on Virgin trains is different. Any ideas why? It isn't the railcard or a booking fee, simply the price listed for the same journey is different.

For those interested it's the 0800 from GLC to SLO via Crewe and London Euston on the 1st of July.

Thanks for any ideas!

wealdroam

For me, National Rail Enquiries shows:




and the Virgin Trains website shows:



The information looks the same to me.

What are the differences that you see?

Rosemary7391

How strange... The first time I tried it showed £38.?? on national rail and £46.20 on Virgin (I have a railcard). Now they both show £46.20 which corresponds to the £70 you have there. Maybe I just happened to click through at the same time someone bought the last ticket at the lower price?

jbuchanangb

Additional point. The journey planner has allowed you 51 minutes to get from Euston to Paddington. Even with the walk to Euston Square, you should not need anything like that so you may be able to get an earlier train at Paddington. If you could get the 13.22 instead of the 13.50 you'd save half an hour. Or the slow train at 13.27 saves you 7 minutes overall.
Your advance ticket shouldl not restrict which GWR train you catch from Paddington unless you specifically request a seat reservation.

Rosemary7391

jbuchanangb wrote: »

Additional point. The journey planner has allowed you 51 minutes to get from Euston to Paddington. Even with the walk to Euston Square, you should not need anything like that so you may be able to get an earlier train at Paddington. If you could get the 13.22 instead of the 13.50 you'd save half an hour. Or the slow train at 13.27 saves you 7 minutes overall.
Your advance ticket shouldl not restrict which GWR train you catch from Paddington unless you specifically request a seat reservation.

Thanks for that - something to bear in mind for another trip, but I only want to arrive before 4pm this time. Actually I usually get my friend to collect me from Uxbridge tube station at silly o clock at night, but I'm travelling for work this time so can go during the day

Kite2010

Sometimes it might be worth changing the provider from NRE just in case the Virgin booking engine doesn't agree with the booking engine used by NRE.

For example GWR which uses Webtis.