does the split ticketing website really work?

r_f

just messing around looking form some train journeys in the 6 week holidays, thought id try skegness 1 adult and 1 child with a railcard.

i live between wolverhampton and birmingham so tried birmingham first £39.10

tried wolverhampton as it makes no difference to me £50.50 ok it seems they are charging me £11.40 to get from wolves to birmingham when this journey is £4.70

so birmingham to skeggy it is then ,1 change over at nottingham

so i decided to do brum to notts then notts to skeggy £15.20 and £15.30 so thats £30.50 if i do my own split ticketing.

split ticketing website just indicates £39.10 and doesnt bother doing what i did so id be £9 quid worse off.

be careful with that tool,i will be double checking myself in future

wealdroam

Try trainsplit.com.

jbuchanangb

I agree with the OP. Trainsplit is not helping here. It does not offer a split, just the two AP single fares totalling £39.10

Booking the legs individually achieves a lower price. I found Off peak return Birmingham to Not, £16.10 then AP singles Nott to Skeg for £8.50 plus £6.80. Total £31.40.

That was for travel on 3 August departing B'Ham 10.19 and departing Skegness 18.14.

yorkie2

r_f wrote: »

split ticketing website just indicates £39.10 and doesnt bother doing what i did so id be £9 quid worse off.

What day/time are you looking at?

r_f wrote: »

be careful with that tool,i will be double checking myself in future

The only way to be certain of obtaining the best deal is to individually search for every single possible combination of fares. Unfortunately that is very time consuming (often costing far more, if time is valued in monetary terms, than any saving)

The newer version of Trainsplit will find many more split opportunities than the current version