Leeds by train £96

[Timbo]

A few years ago I was working on Islay. To come home I caught the ferry to Kennacraig for £3, Coach to Oban for £4, Coach to Glasgow for £7, Overnight Londonliner to Victoria for £10, tube to Charing X for a couple of quid then the train to Battle for £23.00.
From the Western Isles to CX for a grand total of £25.00. Hour and a quarter train ride to Battle for only £2 less.

 

[Yorkie]

buy the tickets as singles from London instead of Leeds return, should be about £19 each way

I've just done a search on the National Rail enquiry site and a single to Leeds on Sat is £61.50.
Fares are cheap if booked well in advance.

 

[Mendoza]

I've just done a search on the National Rail enquiry site and a single to Leeds on Sat is £61.50.
Fares are cheap if booked well in advance.

we booked in advance and it was £11, my mate did it yesterday for £19

 

[Mendoza]

just did the search and your right it has gone up, up to £25.35 each way
http://tickets.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/nxec/

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I've just done a search on the National Rail enquiry site and a single to Leeds on Sat is £61.50.
Fares are cheap if booked well in advance.

Cheapest on 'Trainline' for Saturday is currently KC/Leeds/KC singles @ £28.50 and Brighton/London day return @£13.50 - ie £70.50 + tube.

 

[clippedgull]

Anyone travelling through London (even once a year) please get a free Oyster Card.

The shortest journey on the underground is between Leicester Square and Covent garden on the Piccadilly Line at 260 metres.

With an Oyster will cost you £1.50, without one will cost you £4.

If you are buying at the £4 price, that apparently makes it the most expensive journey you can take by train on earth.

Very good advice.

Never travel through London without mine.

But just a small note: There is a £3 charge initially for the card (if you go the pay as you go route). I think it's fully refundable if you decide to give the card up at any time.

 

[Yorkie]

just did the search and your right it has gone up, up to £25.35 each way
http://tickets.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/nxec/

Plus how much for the fee?

 

[clapham_gull]

I've just done a search on the National Rail enquiry site and a single to Leeds on Sat is £61.50.
Fares are cheap if booked well in advance.

Doesn't quite work like that Yorkie. They are not simply priced by when you buy them, the price is also effected by how many are available at that price.

The headline rates of "£20 return" are very misleading because there are very few tickets available at that rate.

Not directed at you but I find the "cheap if booked well inadvance" statement annoying because technically it's incorrect. It should be "better chance of a cheap ticket if booked in advance..." !

I'm organised enough to book my mine early usually, but when I can't I find it very frustrating to sit on a half empty train whilst having paid a packet for it.

What is also annoying is to have a pay a massive fair to somewhere last minute, be disrupted by near impossible changes (with luggage) due to engineering works, and given a route which wasn't the easiest (or available) when looked at in retrospect,

Rail travel isn't cheap for the majority of users in this country, luckily I don't have to get one to work. What winds me up is that the huge prices are put down to themselves not being organised and booking their tickets early.

Sorry, not all journeys are dictated by a fixture list published in the summer.

 

[Hiney]

Booked last week, £55 return from Southampton

 

[clapham_gull]

Booked last week, £55 return from Southampton

Not bad, but hardly a price to get people out of their cars.

That policy has been quietly dropped and anyone taking on a franchise has been told they will need to increase their fares.

Even for the early birds, the chances of getting a deal will be getting smaller and smaller over the next few years.

 

[Yorkie]

Doesn't quite work like that Yorkie. They are not simply priced by when you buy them, the price is also effected by how many are available at that price.

The headline rates of "£20 return" are very misleading because there are very few tickets available at that rate.

Not directed at you but I find the "cheap if booked well inadvance" statement annoying because technically it's incorrect. It should be "better chance of a cheap ticket if booked in advance..." !

I'm organised enough to book my mine early usually, but when I can't I find it very frustrating to sit on a half empty train whilst having paid a packet for it.

What is also annoying is to have a pay a massive fair to somewhere last minute, be disrupted by near impossible changes (with luggage) due to engineering works, and given a route which wasn't the easiest (or available) when looked at in retrospect,

Rail travel isn't cheap for the majority of users in this country, luckily I don't have to get one to work. What winds me up is that the huge prices are put down to themselves not being organised and booking their tickets early.

Sorry, not all journeys are dictated by a fixture list published in the summer.

I agree. My point was just a quick reply.

 

[Hiney]

Not bad, but hardly a price to get people out of their cars.

That policy has been quietly dropped and anyone taking on a franchise has been told they will need to increase their fares.

Even for the early birds, the chances of getting a deal will be getting smaller and smaller over the next few years.

I just wish i'd booked it all when I could have got it for about £25 return!

The system for identifying and buying fares is so hideously complicated I'm sure many people just give up and get in their cars.

 

[clapham_gull]

I agree. My point was just a quick reply.

Very clever the rail companies though, the cheapest single to Leeds from London is £7 quid but they won't tell you how many are available at that price.

The situation may have changed, but I once tried to book a train to Liverpool by saying "tell me when I go at the cheapest price...."

They weren't able to help me.

 

[Yorkie]

The system for identifying and buying fares is so hideously complicated I'm sure many people just give up and get in their cars.

As you get older, it's tiring to drive north and back in one day. Usually we try and stay over if it's in Yorkshire, but when we can't, it's nice to let someone else do the driving and get our heads down or watch a dvd.

 

[Dirty Dave]

How much is a day return to Wembley for the play off final weekend in May?
May book this in advance to get cheeper fare!

 

[Caveman]

We booked ours a few weeks back at £47 :BARGIN!:

Drive by car I guess, or Mini bus is the best thing if you can get a group of you.

 

[Mrs Coach]

or get a coach

Oi! Get off!

 

[Mendoza]

you can do the group 4 saver tickets to London for £25, then its just a case of buying the tickets from London to Leeds

it will be cheaper than buying a ticket from Brighton straight through to Leeds

 

[mrhairy]

Thanks for all the advice. We are going by train but my daughters boyfriend wanted to join us. But at twenty and a student that will be one less BHA fan

 

[CHAPPERS]

Thanks for all the advice. We are going by train but my daughters boyfriend wanted to join us. But at twenty and a student that will be one less BHA fan

I agree it's a shame that he won't be able to come to Leeds as the atmosphere up there will be nothing short of ELECTRIC but to give up that easy and say 'one less BHA fan' is a little bit defeatist isn't it?

I've noticed this a lot on here recently..

'Mate can't get through to ticket office to buy family tickets' = 4 less Albion fans
'Online ordering won't let me renew season ticket' = 1 less Albion fan

etc etc