Longest Route on the Cheapest Ticket?

[monkey]

...I think mine was Leeds to Edinburgh via Carlisle for £7.25. I'm also doing Newcastle to Leeds next friday for £4.30 - amazing!

 

[EM2]

Kings Cross to Edinburgh for £11 and Edinburgh to Preston for £12 for next Wednesday.
Back in 2000, I also did Brighton to Abergavenny for about £8.
No railcard discounts, either.

 

[Bee15_16]

Edinburgh to Birmingham £1 Middle October.

 

[Big Chris]

£0 courtesy of the new year balls up on the WCML last year. Bangor to London Euston first class and back for nothing and a full refund on my orginal ticket . I've had Newmarket to Preston (via London) for £10.80 think that was the cheapest per mile for a ticket I've had to pay for.

 

[Lampshade]

Preston to Manchester, £2.50

 

[yorkie]

If you exclude 'free' trips, either because there was no tickets sold, or you got a refund, or got given a free ticket, then you couldn't really beat the £1 tickets available only on Virgin Trains when Thetrainline was new in around 2001. The 0640 Class 47 from York was one particular train that had high availability on Saturdays. It was possible to do York-London by getting off this train at Tamworth, then getting a Class 87 (ex-Liverpool) to Euston. In the evening the best bet was via Brum for a HST. This was possible for £4 in total, and I did this once, but the WCML was closed on the return due to the wires being down as a result of severe weather conditions, so had to go via King's Cross, at considerable cost to Virgin.

 

[OwlMan]

If you exclude 'free' trips, either because there was no tickets sold, or you got a refund, or got given a free ticket, then you couldn't really beat the £1 tickets available only on Virgin Trains when Thetrainline was new in around 2001. The 0640 Class 47 from York was one particular train that had high availability on Saturdays. It was possible to do York-London by getting off this train at Tamworth, then getting a Class 87 (ex-Liverpool) to Euston. In the evening the best bet was via Brum for a HST. This was possible for £4 in total, and I did this once, but the WCML was closed on the return due to the wires being down as a result of severe weather conditions, so had to go via King's Cross, at considerable cost to Virgin.

The best at present seem to be Megatrains Edinburgh - Birmingham for £1

Peter

 

[flymo]

My cheapest in recent times was a £9 single, albeit an advance ticket, from London - Newcastle during GNER's time.

 

[route:oxford]

The best at present seem to be Megatrains Edinburgh - Birmingham for £1

Peter

Are they running again? Over the summer I thought they'd given up as I couldn't find any rail services between the two cities in either direction trying a broad range of dates.

 

[CallySleeperKid]

Caledonian Sleeper from Euston to Inverness, Bargain Berth £29, although there is advertised bargain berths at £19 but I'm yet to see one!

 

[monkey]

^^yeah I've never seen that either. only done it once, and did it first class - cos was on my own and wanted the full works experience (which I didn't get, if anyone knows where my scotsman or hot brekkie went, please let me know)...

 

[37401]

EMT £10

East Mids parkway-London
London-Nottingham
Nottingham-Leicester
Leicester-Derby

must have saved about £100+

 

[Mojo]

Are they running again? Over the summer I thought they'd given up as I couldn't find any rail services between the two cities in either direction trying a broad range of dates.

I think the Megatrain map is wrong, like yourself I can never find Birmingham to Edinburgh tickets despite them being on the map. On the other hand there are plenty of very cheap tickets for Birmingham to London during the week even though that isn't on the map.

 

[me123]

Mine would be Scotrail's £15 offer from Sainsbury's; go anywhere in Scotland for £15, so I went Glasgow-Inverness-Elgin-Aberdeen-Glasgow (with a stopover in Elgin) for a bargain £15. (3.3p a mile). I hope they bring it back in the Autumn again.

Not quite as impressive as Megatrain and other such ones listed here, though!

 

[Proud Salopian]

I've done Manchester-London for around a fiver on a number of occassions, simply by buying the advance single weeks in advance! Not bad for what is a great 2 hour journey.

 

[nedchester]

Did Chester to London and back for £0 in June with the Daily Mirror offer. Can't get any cheaper than that!!

 

[fgwrich]

Cheapest Pay on the day tickets ive come across recently are
with FGW - Basingstoke to Evesham was only £13.20 and Basingstoke to Worcester for only £16.50

Which compared to my other local operater, SWT, is brilliant! BSK to Evesham is a distance of roughly 90 miles, yet with SWT, £8.70 - less than 30 miles away and a London Travelcard is £15.50 - Basingstoke to london waterloo - 47 miles...Even BSK to Worcester is roughly 100 miles!

Whilst the best book in advance fare ive come across was £14 padd to liskeard last summer...and just checked the price again, now only Advance Single - £17.20 and in first class, First Advance Single £32.65 - for the £17 of oct...book roughly 1 month ahead and you do get some brilliant fares...

rich

 

[Bee15_16]

Edinburgh to Birmingham £1 on i think 13/10 gets into Birm at 11pm, kinda an unsociable time but still, £1 is £1 :P
£3 on the 12/10 i think.

 

[fgwrich]

Did Chester to London and back for £0 in June with the Daily Mirror offer. Can't get any cheaper than that!!

Thinking about it...That cant be £0 becasue you still had to purchase the newspaper in the first place...

Thing is though...is this thread for Longest Route - Cheapest Ticket for pay on the day or all these different offers here there and everywhere?

 

[monkey]

^^for anything. I was going on advance tickets really, but yeah anyway will do I guess...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thinking about it...That cant be £0 becasue you still had to purchase the newspaper in the first place...

Thing is though...is this thread for Longest Route - Cheapest Ticket for pay on the day or all these different offers here there and everywhere?

Made use of that promotion with a journey from Euston to Manchester and back, and certainly didn't have to buy a copy of the Daily Mirror.

Cheapest ticket available on the day that I can think of is £1.65 for a Cheap Evening ticket from one side of the GMPTE network to the other, say Appley Bridge to Marple/Strines.

 

[LondonLarry]

Megatrain from Waterloo to Exeter St Davids - £1 for 172.5 miles....

 

[Demps]

So then are all of these tickets advanced purchase? months in advance...

 

[TEW]

In general yes. Cheapest walk-on fare I know of is Penzance-Plymouth Off Peak Day Return, £9.50 for a 159 mile round trip.

 

[LondonLarry]

So then are all of these tickets advanced purchase? months in advance...

Not necessarily - just don't travel at busier times of day (i.e. around the morning or evening peaks) or busiter days of the week

 

[Bee15_16]

MegaTrain one was booked 2 weeks before.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Cheapest ticket available on the day that I can think of is £1.65 for a Cheap Evening ticket from one side of the GMPTE network to the other, say Appley Bridge to Marple/Strines.

That's a walk-up, pay on the day, off-peak fare, works out at just over 2.2 pence per mile for the 74 mile round-trip.

 

[OwlMan]

That's a walk-up, pay on the day, off-peak fare, works out at just over 2.2 pence per mile for the 74 mile round-trip.

Or Coventry to Bloxwich North evening return £1-50 about 75 miles return travel, Or if there are 4 of you a evening group return for £4.

 

[fireincairo]

I managed Manchester Picadilly to Birmingham New Street for £2.65 over the late August bank holiday. They were still available the night before at that price!

What gets me is that my bus ticket into Manchester from where I live was £2.70.. :roll: