Train travel.

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Genuinely nothing but a recommendation. No spam at all.

I travel a fair bit on trains and usually use Trainline or similar.

Stumbled upon a site called TrainSplit.

Was pleasantly surprised how much cheaper the tickets were using their split ticketing system.
 
goldenboy said:
Genuinely nothing but a recommendation. No spam at all.

I travel a fair bit on trains and usually use Trainline or similar.

Stumbled upon a site called TrainSplit.

Was pleasantly surprised how much cheaper the tickets were using their split ticketing system.
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Technically, you need to get off and then back on at the station where your ticket is split. If you do not and there is a real jobsworth on the train you could get a penalty fare levied.

I needed to go from Home to Birmingham. So, from the local station, the cheap ticket took me into central London, then all the way back out, past my original station, stopping further on at High Wycombe before continuing to Birmingham. I could have gone straight to High Wycombe, and saved 90 minutes, but had I been checked there would have been a penalty fare.
 
And if your train doesn't stop at the station split, it could prove expensive.
 
Dr Bodgit said:
And if your train doesn't stop at the station split, it could prove expensive.
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That is often mentioned, but will only apply for non-train specific tickets. Most of the cost saving options will be from A to B and B to C - why would they sell you a ticket for A to B that does not stop there!



I have just tried TrainSpilt for a journey I do regularly and the fare they come in with is £62.50 whereas booking through a train operator (not the one who runs the service) and it comes in at £46 for same dates and times. A variation on that journey, is £68 to £48. Using one of the other ticket splitters, comes in at much the same price as Train Split.
 
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I did this once for a train journey from Manchester to Penzance back when I was a student. I saved quite a bit splitting it into I think it was about 7 different legs.

The biggest downside was it was reserved seating, so particularly at the beginning of the journey I was swapping seats at every station. Sod's law when I tried to just stay in the same seat somebody came and asked for theirs - fair enough. And when I got to what was my reserved seat the woman sitting in it was so so so old that asking her to move would have been borderline evil. But I saved about £50 or so, for a couple of hours work with a spreadsheet. I found the ticket splitting sites didn't work that well for such a long journey.

I'd do it again for a long journey through. Or drive. haha.
 
When I booked it gave me specific instructions on which train to stay on etc etc.

It also tells you in very basic terms which trains to get to ensure you meet the requirements.

I was looking at around £80 for my trip and it came down to £36.

You dont have to get off the train at the splits but you do need to be able to. So if its not scheduled to stop you have problems.
 
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goldenboy said:
No spam at all.
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Isn’t it awful that if we want to praise something on the internet we feel the need to have to qualify or justify the recommendation? Yet, we don’t feel the same when we criticise. No wonder the web is so toxic.

Thanks Goldenboy. I don’t think I’ll use it, but I might remember to recommend it to others.
 
btiw2 said:
Isn’t it awful that if we want to praise something on the internet we feel the need to have to qualify or justify the recommendation? Yet, we don’t feel the same when we criticise. No wonder the web is so toxic.

Thanks Goldenboy. I don’t think I’ll use it, but I might remember to recommend it to others.
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This is true.

There are so many self appointed "experts" on the internet.

Most of it is just cut and paste these days.
 
What would the cheapest one way rail fare be to send a group of people to ......Corrour station....on the West Highland line.
Quite happy to organise a whip round.
Rs
 
btiw2 said:
You really are a pansy, milquetoast, pathetic little fascist aren’t you? Less Il Duce, more Il Dolce.

You’d like to ship your opponents off on a one way train ride? Gosh, aren’t you funny? What will happen when they get there? Let me guess? Work will set them free? Ha, ha, it’s funny because you’re a *****.

But you want a whip round first? Like a knock-off, no-brand, pathetic little Führer without the testosterone to even grow the toothbrush moustache - Fräulein sparks.

I wouldn’t mind you trying to act the pensioner hard man if you weren’t such a coward.

Perhaps the YouTube comments section is more your intellectual speed.
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Milquetoast.

That hammer has hit the nail right on the head.

Perfect.
 
goldenboy said:
Milquetoast.

That hammer has hit the nail right on the head.

Perfect.
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Yeah.... about that.... I probably shouldn't bemoan the state of the Internet whilst fly-tipping on it.

Pete, the avenging angel of poetic justice, deserves a limerick.

"The web is toxic", b2 said,
followed by a post ill-considered
Pete thought it ironic,
inappropriate and toxic
Not a ban, but a warning instead
 
btiw2 said:
Yeah.... about that.... I probably shouldn't bemoan the state of the Internet whilst fly-tipping on it.

Pete, the avenging angel of poetic justice, deserves a limerick.

"The web is toxic", b2 said,
followed by a post ill-considered
Pete thought it ironic,
inappropriate and toxic
Not a ban, but a warning instead
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You did use the 'F' word.
 
btiw2 said:
I'd say I don't know what got into me, but posting rants late at night? We know what got into me - I can't bear to see if there's anything left in the bottle.
DBTIW2 came out to play.
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Every now and then it impossible to not say something.

I think it is most difficult when there is a thread that has zero ill feeling and is just unrelated to anything controversial and someone decides to put a snarky comment up, just to be unpleasant.

Anyway back to train travel.

The splitting thing does seem to work better closer to the date of travel.

I think it will be a good resource.

I was impressed by a) the price and b) how idiot proof the instructions are.

On a separate not. When I was a kid and short on funds I worked out a totally legal way to travel the length of the country for virtually nothing.

Permit to travel machines. Not sure if stations still have them but years ago every station had them. Usually hidden away in a stairwell or by the toilets

All you had to do was put 5p in and get a permit to travel ticket out. That would allow you to travel for 2 hrs without penalty fare.

I went absolutely hundreds of miles stopping in little stations to get a new one.
 
goldenboy said:
Every now and then it impossible to not say something.

I think it is most difficult when there is a thread that has zero ill feeling and is just unrelated to anything controversial and someone decides to put a snarky comment up, just to be unpleasant.


Know what you mean Goldy, a few days ago the Saturday night thread was going really well and pleasant and RS was talking about his grandchildren, then this was slipped in the thread by DA, is this the sort of thing you are referring to ?

RS Says.↑
Yep.........love em to bits....
Not enough energy for them.
2.5 year old grand daughter going on 9 years old.......
Bright as a button........" grand dad... you call me poppet and i will call you grand dad"
"Grand dad stay in your chair !!!!......don't chase me"
Expecting another in November.......all being well.
The vino is kicking in....lol
Rs

DA Says
“If she's as bright as a button, I guess it won't be long before she sits on your knee and asks "Tell me, granddad - why did some people take away my European citizenship? Why do they hate people who aren't like themselves? Why do they want other people strung up with piano wire? Granddad - why is your mind like a cesspit?"

Bless”


Anyway back to train travel.

The splitting thing does seem to work better closer to the date of travel.

I think it will be a good resource.

I was impressed by a) the price and b) how idiot proof the instructions are.

On a separate not. When I was a kid and short on funds I worked out a totally legal way to travel the length of the country for virtually nothing.

Permit to travel machines. Not sure if stations still have them but years ago every station had them. Usually hidden away in a stairwell or by the toilets

All you had to do was put 5p in and get a permit to travel ticket out. That would allow you to travel for 2 hrs without penalty fare.

I went absolutely hundreds of miles stopping in little stations to get a new one.
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You can cut the atmosphere of humiliation and embarrassment with a knife..........
Not that I am one to gloat..(yes i am...lol)

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