Great Missenden to Nuneaton

[ElliotS]

I am wandering if anyone has any advice for this, I have travelled to Birmingham, Redditch, Coventry and other midlands areas for around £25 usually with an off peak anytime return in a month ticket. However, Nuneaton seems to be coming up at more than double the cost? Anyway around this? I don’t like the underground so was going to use Chiltern trains to Birmingham but still coming in at same price?

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

I am wandering if anyone has any advice for this, I have travelled to Birmingham, Redditch, Coventry and other midlands areas for around £25 usually with an off peak anytime return in a month ticket. However, Nuneaton seems to be coming up at more than double the cost? Anyway around this? I don’t like the underground so was going to use Chiltern trains to Birmingham but still coming in at same price?

The reason is that there are no Chiltern-set fares - only CrossCountry-set fares. CrossCountry don't have the good value Chiltern & Connections or 'via Banbury'/'via High Wycombe' fares that Chiltern has.

The 'solution' is to buy a combination of tickets, e.g. an Advance/walk-up Chiltern set fare to as far as you can, and then a local fare for the rest.

I've PMed you with some advice.

 

[Romilly]

new.trainsplit.com suggests buying a £26.50 super offpeak Great Missenden to Bedworth "via Banbury" day return (for the route Great Missenden - Aylesbury - Princes Risborough - Banbury - Leamington Spa - Coventry - Bedworth) and a £3.10 anytime Bedworth-Nuneaton day return.

There may be 5 changes in each direction, and the Coventry-Nuneaton trains you use must be scheduled to call at Bedworth (but they are all scheduled to do so, on weekdays at least - I haven't checked weekends).

Alternatively, there are £25 super offpeak returns from Watford Junction to Nuneaton valid only on West Midlands Railway trains.

 

[JB_B]

The reason is that there are no Chiltern-set fares - only CrossCountry-set fares. CrossCountry don't have the good value Chiltern & Connections or 'via Banbury'/'via High Wycombe' fares that Chiltern has.

The 'solution' is to buy a combination of tickets, e.g. an Advance/walk-up Chiltern set fare to as far as you can, and then a local fare for the rest.

I've PMed you with some advice.

Exactly, there's a very sharp fare-boundary where the cheap Chiltern-set (via Banbury) fares end and the Cross Country fares kick-in. The closest you can get to Nuneaton for ~£26 is Coleshill Parkway or Bedworth.

 

[cactustwirly]

If the OP doesn't mind being fixed to particular trains, then I'd suggest a combo of: Great Missenden - Birmingham Advances, then Advances from Birmingham to Nuneaton.

 

[Qwerty133]

Exactly, there's a very sharp fare-boundary where the cheap Chiltern-set (via Banbury) fares end and the Cross Country fares kick-in. The closest you can get to Nuneaton for ~£26 is Coleshill Parkway or Bedworth.

It is possible to get journeys to Coleshill Parkway using such fares that go via Nuneaton on NRE if you put the right restrictions in.

 

[OwlMan]

As Qwerty 133 says a ticket to Coleshill Parkway is valid to Nuneaton via Banbury, Coventry & Bedworth saving the cost of a Bedworth - Nuneaton ticket