Another train ticket question

One · 29 Sep 2012 at 13:37

If I go to london then home one day, and then the next day I do the same thing are there any special tickets I can get or do I have to get two separate returns?

Pawnless Endgame · 29 Sep 2012 at 13:51

Best to use ticket booking sites to work out the prices. You can either book a journey as whole, or in parts, single or return. It often works out much cheaper to book it in parts.

www.thetrainline.com
www.nationalrail.co.uk
www.redspottedhanky.com

One · 29 Sep 2012 at 13:54

Yes but how do I book a ticket from A-B on Day1, then A-B on day 2 as well, or is there no such ticket for this? I know I could get a 7 day 'season ticket', so I was wondering if something like that was available for 2 days.

Tican · 29 Sep 2012 at 19:14

Edit: Woops - misread, ignore.

Brian The Snail · 30 Sep 2012 at 14:27

The shortest 'season' ticket I could ever get was for 7 days. I reckon you'll need two returns.

Here's a site to help break the journey which can prove to be cheaper: http://www.splityourticket.co.uk/

semi-pro waster · 30 Sep 2012 at 14:34

desires said:
Yes but how do I book a ticket from A-B on Day1, then A-B on day 2 as well, or is there no such ticket for this? I know I could get a 7 day 'season ticket', so I was wondering if something like that was available for 2 days.

No, not as far as I am aware. Tickets tend to be split into journeys/days, weeks, months, years - to do otherwise would just add unnecessary layers of complication for rail companies. If you lived close enough to London to be within one of the zones then you could get an Oyster card and charge it up with enough to cover your two return trips perhaps but otherwise it's two return journeys.

Amp34 · 30 Sep 2012 at 17:02

Brian The Snail said:
The shortest 'season' ticket I could ever get was for 7 days. I reckon you'll need two returns.

Here's a site to help break the journey which can prove to be cheaper: http://www.splityourticket.co.uk/

Does that even work...? I tried several different routes in that website and it couldn't show any split routes, apparently they were too long or didn't work, then it asked me to split my route in two and try again...

Erm... Isn't that the whole reason you are on that site in the first place?

[TW]Fox · 30 Sep 2012 at 17:08

desires said:
If I go to london then home one day, and then the next day I do the same thing are there any special tickets I can get or do I have to get two separate returns?

No, unless you live within the same area as a Rover ticket which also covers London. Almost none of them do, I can only think of the Thames Valley 3 in 7 day.