Train prices and times

[Brauny Blue]

Yes. You have a seat booked on a specific train, your ticket is only valid for that seat on that train. I think the cheapest is £7 each way now, it was £6. There are a limited number of cheap tickets on each train though, so you usually need to book several weeks in advance to get the cheapest ones.

Cheers guv, thats useful to know:icon_wink.

Suprised you can get tickets that reasonable, i thought it would be a bit of a rip off. Perhaps they have got their act together a bit more since i last travelled with them.

 

[highland fox]

Cheers guv, thats useful to know:icon_wink.

Suprised you can get tickets that reasonable, i thought it would be a bit of a rip off. Perhaps they have got their act together a bit more since i last travelled with them.

Aye Brauny and its not Steam anymore

 

[Jeff]

Cheers guv, thats useful to know:icon_wink.

Suprised you can get tickets that reasonable, i thought it would be a bit of a rip off. Perhaps they have got their act together a bit more since i last travelled with them.

It's still a rip off for a lot of journeys if you want flexibility, or want to buy at the last minute, but there are bargains around if you can book ahead. The system can be fairly complicated though with so many different companies having different ticket types, and some journeys working out cheaper if you split them up into separate tickets.

 

[Jeff]

There are plenty of London to Weymouth return tickets, on specific trains, for £24.10. So if you'd booked far enough in advance you'd have been able to do the Leicester to London bit for £7 each way, giving you a fare of around £38 plus the cost of getting across London.
But I'm struggling to find cheap Leicester to London tickets at the moment.
There may be other ways to split the journey up, I'll also look into that.

Best I've found so far is £42.10, plus the cost of getting from St Pancras to Waterloo.
That would be if you go and return on Saturdays, and you'd have to get the 6:30 train from Leicester.

Still looking for alternatives.

 

[highland fox]

Best I've found so far is £42.10, plus the cost of getting from St Pancras to Waterloo.
That would be if you go and return on Saturdays, and you'd have to get the 6:30 train from Leicester.

Still looking for alternatives.

How about via Nuneaton on the Virgin Cross Country Service ? I only know about it because I get it from Glasgow occasionaly.I know it won't go to Weymouth but it might get him nearby.Think it goes to Southampton from Cov

 

[Jeff]

Can you get to Birmingham for 6:03 on the Friday morning?
And back from Brum at 22:52 the following Friday?

If you can you can get tickets from Megatrain.com for £3 each, each way.

Return tickets from Bournemouth to Weymouth would be around £20 each.

 

[Durham Fox]

you can go quite cheap from rugby I think at short notice...

 

[Jeff]

How about via Nuneaton on the Virgin Cross Country Service ?

Virgin cross country don't go via Nuneaton, unless the line they use into Brmingham is closed and there's a diversion. Virgin West Coast do Glasgow - Nuneaton.

The Megatrain thing in my previous post uses the Virgin Cross Country from Birmingham, as far as Bournemouth.

There are no 'normal' cheap tickets available on the Friday though, just the Megatrain ones, and although cheaper Virgin tickets are available on the Saturday, it's not as cheap as going via London.

 

[bocadillo]

Best I've found so far is £42.10, plus the cost of getting from St Pancras to Waterloo.
That would be if you go and return on Saturdays, and you'd have to get the 6:30 train from Leicester.

Still looking for alternatives.

£4 each way, unless you've got an Oyster card.

No direct buses from St Pancras to Waterloo, although you can get the 91 to the end of Strand and walk over Waterloo Bridge.

 

[Jeff]

you can go quite cheap from rugby I think at short notice...

If I'm going to London I sometimes drive to Rugby and get the train from there. But it's usually cheaper to buy a Rugby to MK ticket, then MK to London.

 

[highland fox]

Virgin cross country don't go via Nuneaton, unless the line they use into Brmingham is closed and there's a diversion

I thought you could go Coventry to Southampton direct...I might have dreamt it though:icon_lol:

 

[Jeff]

Leicester to Weymouth return is nearly £60 on National Express.

 

[highland fox]

Leicester to Weymouth return is nearly £60 on National Express.

Feck that,I bet it takes about 14 hours as well

 

[Jeff]

I thought you could go Coventry to Southampton direct...I might have dreamt it though:icon_lol:

I think I have done that journey in the past. But the train doesn't go via Nuneaton, it goes from Birmingham to Cov.

 

[highland fox]

I think I have done that journey in the past. But the train doesn't go via Nuneaton, it goes from Birmingham to Cov.

Anywhere South of Glasgow and I'm a bit out of touch trainwise tbh,I should keep me beak out:icon_bigg

 

[stevewalshwasgod]

oooh trains!!!

 

[MHS]

oooh trains!!!

I knew you'd ****ing show your face. :icon_wink

 

[pds]

Thanks for all the help Jeff, legend.

I will seriouslly look up the National Express and Birmingham morning options.

Once again ta.

 

[Jeff]

Thanks for all the help Jeff, legend.

I will seriouslly look up the National Express and Birmingham morning options.

Once again ta.

If you're thinking about the Megatrain ones you might need to book them quick before the price goes up.

 

[stevewalshwasgod]

I was going to get my mate from railuk to have a look, he says forget the fridays, go saturdays..