My girlfriend and I want to go on a Friday evening, come back on Sunday afternoon. However www.thetrainline.com just seems to want to screw us for over a hundred quid even when we want to buy a month in advance!
What kind of incentive is that to use public transport?!
Any advice welcome. :-)
2006-10-14 02:58:48 · 15 answers · asked by Alex 42 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
Midland mainline. I use them all the time. If you book in advance its only £6 each way. www.midlandmainline.co.uk
2006-10-14 03:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by Dave 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a question of Yield Management, just like airlines.
The train companies know that they can fill a train on Friday and Sunday at £50 a ticket just as easily as they can fill them at £6 a ticket, so that's precisely what they do. Same applies for busy times like Easter, Bank Holidays, Christmas and New Year.
If you want a cheaper ticket, you need to avoid travelling at busy times. Late morning on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays tends to have reasonable availability for cheaper tickets and reservations for Midland Mainline are currently open up to Christmas Eve.
2006-10-15 10:55:10 · answer #2 · answered by Barry Salter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the train companies web site. For that journey then midlandmainline.co.uk is propably the one. And yes you need to be booking well in advance. Midland Mainline do offers from Nottingham to London for about £10 return so may help?
2006-10-14 03:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by purpletia2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The final time we went to the united kingdom we offered the tickets for our first days shuttle in the past we left the states. We have been then instructed by utilising the prepare workers that they are going to many times sell tickets for first-class, a sprint greater spacious, at discounted costs the day of departure, in lots of cases even under coach rates. that's how we traveled something of the bypass to. additionally they enable those with prepurchased tickets to enhance to first-class, on the time it become in basic terms approximately $20 us, i don't know what it quite is now. on the time it become additionally greater much low-priced to shuttle the chunnel on a bus as they rigidity the bus onto the prepare and it quite is a collection value for the vehicle. i don't know if this remains genuine, even though it quite is worth checking! Have a blast! I envy you! wish I have been going!!!!
2016-11-28 04:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by mccracken 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Travel after 9:30 is cheaper on trains. If you go on Saturday you can pay an extra £6 on the train and go first class. That's if Midland Bloody Mainline's guards a. know about it b. can find it on their stupid machines c. can speak English or d. can speak any language other than gruntese.
2006-10-14 20:40:50 · answer #5 · answered by prakdrive 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I understand your frustration in this matter so how about checking out the reasonably priced air tickets these days available virtually anywhere for about £20?
2006-10-15 00:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by edison 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes 2 singles are cheaper than a return and avoid peak times. also if you are under 26 you can get a young persons railcard, it costs £20 but saves you a third off rail travel for a year, i go to newcastle from norwich a few times a year and it pays for itself
2006-10-14 10:28:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
book 2 one way journeys - you will save about 30% my aunt and uncle saved £60 travelling Norwich to Edinbuirgh doing it that way and booked their return tickets on their arrival on the Friday for going back on the Sunday
2006-10-14 03:08:09 · answer #8 · answered by StephE 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Friday is peak travel day so no discounts as a rule. Try going a day earlier/later
2006-10-14 03:06:58 · answer #9 · answered by enigma_variation 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you thought about taking a coach? They are much cheaper than rip off trains. I'm sure there will be plenty of coaches from Sheffield to London. It's slower than the train of course...
2006-10-14 03:06:43 · answer #10 · answered by Adrian 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋