Best website to buy train tickets these days?

Efour

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Euston to Liverpool Lime street?

Operators own or ... Whats the best these days?

Thanks..

The prices are ridiculous i think... £70 for a single is best i can come up with leaving on a Saturday morning 7am coming back 7PM.
 
Jeez Louise.... wtf happened to the price of things? im living in the UK 2010s i guess :p
 
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£50 if you change, £67.90 direct.

Buying a railcard brings it down to £32.90 with change or £33.65 direct.

I use the TrainPal app - there is a refer scheme where you get £3 discount for signing up and then random vouchers from the app (3%, 5% etc)
 
Malevolence said:
When did buying a train ticket become such a ******* chore.
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When the country were convinced they didn't want a nationally run train service and carving it up into numerous private companies would make things better.

Malevolence said:
Whatever happened to simply rocking up to the station and buying a ticket over the counter?
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jrwagh333 said:
You can
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For now.

Isn't that one of the things the train strikers are trying to stop, the closure of ticket counters?
 
Dis86 said:
Trainline
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Does trainline still charge ridiculous booking fees? It's been probably 10 years since I used them, but after they introduced booking fees I stuck with the TOCs own site or national rail where you only paid for the cost of the ticket.
 
I think you're overthinking it to be honest. It doesn't matter where you buy the ticket from because there's a 98% chance the train won't be running anyway :rolleyes:
 
Haggisman said:
I think you're overthinking it to be honest. It doesn't matter where you buy the ticket from because there's a 98% chance the train won't be running anyway :rolleyes:
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That's why you buy a ticket for a train before the one you want, then when it gets inevitability cancelled you can take the next train for free
 
I dunno how serious you 2 are lol
Have the services got that bad in the past ten years?
 
It has got pretty bad. Be prepared to find your train cancelled when you get to the station. Last year I took the train between Edinburgh and Carlisle every couple weeks and it was about 50/50 as to whether it'd be cancelled. I'd still be able to travel on the same day but it was a nightmare coordinating my arrival time.
 
We use trainsplit for our regular trips between Edinburgh and the West Mids.

If you're travelling with kids, buy a Family and Friends railcard. Costs about £30 I think, but knocks a lot more off the price.
 
Efour said:
I dunno how serious you 2 are lol
Have the services got that bad in the past ten years?
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No, they haven't. They are certainly better than they were 10 years ago in my area, and a magnitude better than when it was British Rail. I'd be late for college or work so many times back then.
 
Efour said:
I dunno how serious you 2 are lol
Have the services got that bad in the past ten years?
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It is partially true --- COVID and industrial action have seen them unclear on what a steady state schedule looks like, therefore it is quite hard to hold a steady state.
 
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