Advanced Train Tickets My Rs

[piggynose]

Train line just sent me an email telling me that an advanced ticket from Brum to Crewe is available now. When i checked, it was for a 9am train only!!
not looking good

[mccfluff]

what date are you looking for? i looked at the 6/12 and im getting services all day at £7 a ticket

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/BHM/CRE/061213/1057/arr

[piggynose]

9/12 at about 3pm - 2 tickets

[piggynose]

correction, 8/12 at about 3pm, 2 tickets

[mccfluff]

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/BHM/CRE/081213/1708/arr

15.17 birm new street to crewe £24 each

[Buenchico]

Please, please, please don't use the dreaded Trainline.com. They can't offer tickets any more cheaply than the National Rail website and will probably actually cost you more (through booking fees).

Further, I used to run a railway station and I got fed up of having to explain to customers that tickets they'd been sold by Trainline.com weren't valid on any train. (e.g. because they'd been issued using a promotion offered by company A on a train operated by company B, with 'reservations' on a service that didn't even have seat numbers, yet alone reservations!).

Use the National Rail website and nowhere else!
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Alternatively (if you really want to make sure that you've not missed any bargains) check on the websites of the relevant rail companies which, in this case, are Virgin Trains
http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/
and London Midland
http://www.londonmidland.com/

[Buenchico]

That's the regular off-peak fare, McC, not an 'Advance' one.

[piggynose]

happy days are here at long last!!
Manchester airport to B'ham new st... 2 single tickets... £12.50 each
B'ham new st to Man piccadily.... 2 single tickets... £10 each
Manchester picc to Manchester airport... 2 singles £4 each
total...£26.50 each as bit cheaper than the 1st quote of £42 each
note.. if i wanted a direct train from brum to man airport it would've been £40 each lol phew

[kendra20]

when we went on holiday to the lake district I looked on travel line to see how much it would cost booking early. the fare was £30 each dearer than buying them on the train on the day we travelled.

[piggynose]

silly me, sorry. thanx abers for your help.