How to pre-book train tickets ?

[ColinJ]

Hope you've got your senior rail card just thirty quid for the year.

For very useful off-peak 1/3 off all fares.

Currently also available at £70 for 3 years - I just renewed mine HERE. I got £3.50 cashback so I only have to spend more than £66.50 a year on fares to make a saving and I typically spend two or three times that.

 

[vickster]

For very useful off-peak discounts of 1/3.

Currently also available at £70 for 3 years - I just renewed mine HERE. I got £3.50 cashback so I only have to spend more than £66.50 a year on fares to make a saving and I typically spend two or three times that.

Is there a minimum Monday to Friday fare like the Network Railcard (£13 iirc)?

 

[ColinJ]

Is there a minimum Monday to Friday fare like the Network Railcard (£13 iirc)?

No. I often use it to travel to Hebden Bridge from Todmorden and that return fare is was only £2.40 (they seem to have put it up to £2.70 since I last did it). I paid £1.60 return which is about half what it cost to go one way by bus (since the free bus pass age is now aligned to pension age here).

 

[swee'pea99]

Could be. Depends on your rail company, locality. Look at the website. It is in London

Hence, I have heard, London drivers' term for old dears: twirlies. As in "Am I too early?"

 

[Ajax Bay]

Note that Tesco vouchers can be exchanged for a voucher to buy an annual railcard.
I've found the GWR site (for any area/operator) excellent for buying tickets, and securing a reserved seat and book a space for my bike.

 

[GM]

Hope you've got your senior rail card just thirty quid for the year.

.....or, if like me have hearing aids, get a disabled persons railcard £20 a year or £54 for three years.

 

[jefmcg]

Southern, though they have a terrible train service, offer a refund for

• Anytime
• Anytime Day
• Off-Peak
• Off-Peak Day
• Super Off-Peak

if you don't collect the tickets. I've used them for booking multiple tickets on different services when I wasn't sure I could time it precisely, and refund the ones I don't need. It's important to not confuse the booking numbers and collect a ticket you don't want by accident.

 

[Dave7]

I personally don't entrust important travel documents to my phone with its finite battery life.

Haha.
Reminded me that earlier this year I recieved a 50% off voucher to a restaurant........voucher was on my phone.
We went there, enjoyed our meal, then I 'tried' to show the voucher. But it had disappeared. Nothing we tried would bring it back.
I had to pay the full price

 

[PK99]

Useful tip for Boris card users: the ticket windows will sell you a ticket from the edge of the Boris Card Zone to a rail destination outside to zone - have yet to find an online or machine way to do that other than identifying a station the train stops at.

 

[jefmcg]

What's a Boris card? Please don't give him credit for oyster, which was introduced when he was member for Henley. By rights, Boris bikes should be called Ken bikes. Let's not give him further credit for things he had no part in implementing.

 

[PK99]

What's a Boris card? Please don't give him credit for oyster, which was introduced when he was member for Henley. By rights, Boris bikes should be called Ken bikes. Let's not give him further credit for things he had no part in implementing.

Boris Card = over 60's free oyster card covering Train, tube and bus in TFL area for London borough residents, introduced in 2012 ie when Boris was Mayor

 

[Levo-Lon]

Me and mrs lon use a rail card and travel off peak.
Usually find either trainline or Peterborough station is the best deal.

The so called internet web save thingies are usually more expensive...commission ect.
But we're led to believe all things like go compare ect will save money ..
Check a price and try going direct..see what they can do

 

[robjh]

What's a Boris card? Please don't give him credit for oyster, which was introduced when he was member for Henley. By rights, Boris bikes should be called Ken bikes. Let's not give him further credit for things he had no part in implementing.

To be fair, I think the Garden Bridge project could rightly be called the Boris Money Hole.

 

[Slow But Determined]

Looking at one online company the price is £7.00 for every train apart from (i think) 09.27......then its only £3.10.


get them emailed to you and you pick them up using your caer
Sorry...... whats my caer ?

It's the Welsh word for fort Dave.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You can get tickets in advance at the train station. They are pretty helpful including the bike booking bit.