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Gingembre_2

Ahh please help!

I'm travelling from Newbury to Newcastle on 25th October (arriving about noon) and coming back on the 26th (leaving about 5pm). I need to go through London ideally as my friend is coming from London.

I know I've left it horribly late but I've tried various websites and splitting in York and Durham and I can't find any cheaper than around £65 each. It's probably too late for any more cheaper advance tickets to be released, but can anyone find it any cheaper!? Are there any promo codes around?! I'm only going for a weekend or I'd megabus it. Help!

Thanks.

KeithP

If you tell us where you are travelling from and to, maybe someone can help you further.

AirlieBird

The likelihood is that your train operator hasn't opened it's reservations system for that week yet. Some booking engines work by allowing you to search for trains up to a certain period ahead, regardless of whether the reservations system for that operator has opened. These will show the timetable stored on the National Rail database and seemingly allows you to book walkon tickets before the reservations system for that route has opened.

For example thetrainline will allow you to search 3 months from now, but train opreators don't usually open their reservations systems until 9-10 weeks in advance.

Of the long distance operators as far as I can tell only NXEC have opened their reservations system for the 15th Dec. All the long distance operators have their reservations system open for the previous week, at least for weekdays.

activist3

I am trying to get from London to Swansea on friday 17th october leaving london about 6ish and leaving swansea on sunday 19th about 5 ish. Cheapest i can find is £86quid. Any body got any tips/.

coral

travel on anything after 6.30pm and the return is £62 - not really any tricks on the peak FGW's

guard

Gingembre wrote: »

Ahh please help!

I'm travelling from Newbury to Newcastle on 25th October (arriving about noon) and coming back on the 26th (leaving about 5pm). I need to go through London ideally as my friend is coming from London.

I know I've left it horribly late but I've tried various websites and splitting in York and Durham and I can't find any cheaper than around £65 each. It's probably too late for any more cheaper advance tickets to be released, but can anyone find it any cheaper!? Are there any promo codes around?! I'm only going for a weekend or I'd megabus it. Help!

Thanks.

try www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com - i found them for £48.50 each way - its probably the online discount for buying national expres tickets through them.
if you can leave later - leave newbury at 11.54 and its £39.15.
leave at 14.54 and its down to£30

someone

Hi, I have just been looking at tickets for Manchester to Birmingham so me a few others can go The National Work Placement Exhibition @ NEC on the 30th.

The return fair is £58 but with split ticketing it goes down to £28 (splitting at Stafford). I haven't been able to find any advance fairs when looking and was wondering do they release them in one go or trickle them out

ticketcollector

Sometime ago last year the fares manual was leaked out. I have again got a hold of a copy at the link below...

There is a slight problem with the installation but I belive I may have found a work around.

http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/fares-manual/

mods: If im not allowed to link to this programme please let me know.

savemoney

You cant advertise here ticketcollector

ticketcollector

Is this not advertising??
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=5036561&postcount=109

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=5036692&postcount=509

I am not advertising either. This is a programme which is issued internally for working out fares and tickets.
This would be a lot of help to a lot of users on here!