MoneySavingExpert.com Cheapest Train Fares Article Discussion

Murphys_Maw

Thanks Alan

I will just keep looking as the days/weeks go by, at this rate i might be going by car. Not so green but cheaper.

Maw

Dicky2K

Murphys_Maw wrote: »

Thanks Alan

I will just keep looking as the days/weeks go by, at this rate i might be going by car. Not so green but cheaper.

Maw

Thats one way that they could get traffic off the road, reducing the price of public transport would really help...

dzug1

Dicky2K wrote: »

I dont understand all these train tickets.. Which one is the cheapest? Need 2 tickets from Northampton/Aberystwyth return if anyone can help..

A saver return (Buy on the day, no reservation, any off peak train) is £47.10 each.

Advance purchase singles (buy in advance, specific trains) are £13, £18 or £21 each, each way, depending on what's available when you buy them.

Cheaper NOT to buy them from thetrainline or raileasy, who add a booking fee.

dzug1

Murphys_Maw wrote: »

Thanks Alan

I will just keep looking as the days/weeks go by, at this rate i might be going by car. Not so green but cheaper.

Maw

22 August should be no problem once they are released. Don't believe the hoary old 12 weeks myth - it rarely happens in reality.

24 August may be a problem - both in there being cheap tickets and in there being any trains to use them on that are not buses for large sections of the route.

Might be worth looking at going via London on the return - though I don't know whether there will be engineering works that way as well......

gner_ex

Murphys_Maw wrote: »

Thanks Alan

I will just keep looking as the days/weeks go by, at this rate i might be going by car. Not so green but cheaper.

Maw

For virtually any journey I wish to make with one person travelling, a (train) saver return ticket is nearly always cheaper than driving (sometimes just considering fuel along, but virtually always when you consider fuel, parking, depreciation, insurance/tax/maintenance).

Murphys_Maw

Thanks for the info folks.

There are 3 of us going on this trip, therefore at £110.00 each, we would defo be better off taking the car. I just dont want to.

Any ideas of when the Advance Saver tickets will be released. Im becoming obsessed with Virgintrains.co.uk lol Maybe i will email Richard, see what he can do lol..

Maw x

virginjon

New Megatrain routes are starting as from 14 July 2008. All on the following Virgin West Coast Voyager Trains:

04:58 Manchester Piccadilly - Glasgow Central
08:03 Birmingham New Street - Edinburgh Waverley
11:03 Birmingham New Street - Glasgow Central
21:03 Birmingham New Street - Preston
12:51 Edinburgh Waverley - Birmingham New Street
10:10 Glasgow Central - Birmingham New Street
20:10 Glasgow Central - Manchester Piccadilly

Initially there will be 40 seats on offer on each train per day. Prices will range from £1 to £9, plus 50p booking fee. Passengers can book upto 03:00 the day before departure.
If you go on www.megatrain.com and book for these services for travel on or after 14 July, the tickets should be available, until sold out.

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