'We saved £960 on our train journey': is this the biggest split-ticketing success ever? - MSE News

Former_MSE_Callum

A group of 20 union members saved a combined £960 on train tickets to their annual general meeting - by splitting their return tickets into six journeys...

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''We saved £960 on our train journey': is this the biggest split-ticketing success ever?"

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martindow

It makes for a good headline, but the reality is each person saved £48.

Former_MSE_Callum

martindow wrote: »

It makes for a good headline, but the reality is each person saved £48.

That's still quite a significant saving each

glider3560

They could've also broken even by buying 10x Two Together Railcards, which they'd then have to use for the rest of the year, in the event they want to make additional journeys together.

glider3560

Also, why did they pay the splitting website extra to buy the tickets? Not very money saving. Why not buy them somewhere else (e.g. the station, any train company website, etc etc)?

redux

How about car-sharing?

160 miles each way, say £20 of fuel, shared between 4 per car, £10 a head return.

One-Eye

redux wrote: »

How about car-sharing?

160 miles each way, say £20 of fuel, shared between 4 per car, £10 a head return.

... and about 45 minutes quicker.

Rosemary7391

They've got some pretty close changes there. Hopefully they don't have delays and need to buy new tickets...

glider3560

Rosemary7391 wrote: »

They've got some pretty close changes there. Hopefully they don't have delays and need to buy new tickets...

The railway now consider a combination of tickets to be one single journey, and will therefore allow you to take a later train if you miss a connection, even if that is on a different ticket.

Rosemary7391

glider3560 wrote: »

The railway now consider a combination of tickets to be one single journey, and will therefore allow you to take a later train if you miss a connection, even if that is on a different ticket.

I didn't know that had changed - there is still a warning about it in the train cost saving article on MSE.

stragglebod

glider3560 wrote: »

The railway now consider a combination of tickets to be one single journey, and will therefore allow you to take a later train if you miss a connection, even if that is on a different ticket.

If you're on Advance tickets then only if you leave at least the minimum connection time.


They're right on the minimum at Carlisle of 8 minutes. Should be OK, but there's always the chance of getting some 'I know the rules I've worked here for 30 years' cretin who doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'minimum'