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50% discount on rail travel

50% discount off rail travel
Book online between 25 August - 1 September and receive a 50% discount when you spend £40 or more.

You MUST book via the FirstScotRail website

http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/emailCampaign/interim1.php

1) The journey doesn't appear to require travel within Scotland
2) The initial transaction value must exceed £40 and the reduction of 50% is shown at the payment details screen (NOT BEFORE).
3) The discount appears to be given on any transaction value exceeding £40 and is NOT necessarily on a per ticket basis. What I'm trying to say is that as long as your total price for tickets exceeds £40 you're laughing! The total price could include 2 adult and 2 child tickets with a railcard and the discount is given on that whole transaction value, including railcard discounts.

Seems too good to be true!!
:wave: Falkirk Bairn
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  • hammodt
    hammodt Posts: 412 Forumite
    Amazing! Yes, anywhere in the UK, based on thetrainline.com system - so access to all trains.

    WOW!

    David
    What shall I put here? :confused:
  • thepearce
    thepearce Posts: 2,287 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Great find.... one thing to consider is that even if your journey doesn't usually cost over £40 you may find paying this much gives you a more flexible ticket....with more availability. In my case travel should be about £21, but there are no cheap tickets available. An open single IS available at £42...but that comes back down to £21 with the 50% off :) Cheers.
  • ca-uk
    ca-uk Posts: 62 Forumite
    thanks for this - just went to the pain of buying a return for each day of my daily commute until end of october as 50% off works out better than a weekly or monthly season..
  • mrak
    mrak Posts: 112 Forumite
    Oho!! Even better.. you can buy seperate tickets for totally unrelated journeys! As long as you buy them in the same transaction, and the total value is about £40, I believe you make a 50% saving over the lot!

    Fantastic spot OP!

    Mrak
  • ca-uk
    ca-uk Posts: 62 Forumite
    yep - but it takes time as you have to go through over and over - i bought 18 tickets in all - all 50% off...
  • Would I be right in thinking it is only 1 transaction per customer or has someone twigged and stopped offer from being nationwide !
  • love2save
    love2save Posts: 832 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Wonderful! I have just booked a weekend journey to London in October just in time for my hubbie's birthday...Thanks! :)
  • ca-uk
    ca-uk Posts: 62 Forumite
    may be cookie based, or account based - try clearing cookies or setting up a new account. to avoid problems you could use your partners name (if you've got one!)
  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    was waiting on boss to get home to arrange her travel till end of October, but getting the message this resource has timed out. Tried clearing cookies etc to no avail.


    DAMN!!!
  • ca-uk
    ca-uk Posts: 62 Forumite
    still working for me - and i've already ordered once
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