Looking for cheapest possible ticket from Glasgow to Mallaig

[jednick]

There's a feature on the Virgin Trains and also the Scotrail websites where it lets me see many possible prices of a ticket from A to B.

I see there's a possibility of an advance purchase single priced at just £5 between Glasgow and Mallaig.

But I've searched well into April and May and I can find no tickets at that price.

Do I assume that there were at least a few tickets available at that price, but somebody's bought them?

I can be flexible with which day in the next few months I do this journey. I want to find the ticket at the cheapest possible price, and that'll be the day I travel.

Do I have to just search manually for each and every day, or is there a website available where I can type in the journey I want and it'll tell me on which days the cheapest possible ticket is available?

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

National Rail Enquiries has a Cheapest Fare Finder. Some Advance tiers are simply impossible to get in practice, for one reason or another, though I know for a fact I've got that tier as far as Fort William.

 

[jednick]

National Rail Enquiries has a Cheapest Fare Finder. Some Advance tiers are simply impossible to get in practice, for one reason or another, though I know for a fact I've got that tier as far as Fort William.

Thanks for the reply. I've used the National Rail cheapest fare finder a few times. I was wondering whether there's any similar website capable of searching for the cheapest fare over the course of a week or a month (instead of having to use the cheapest fare finder, which I think only searches one day at a time).

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

Thanks for the reply. I've used the National Rail cheapest fare finder a few times. I was wondering whether there's any similar website capable of searching for the cheapest fare over the course of a week or a month (instead of having to use the cheapest fare finder, which I think only searches one day at a time).

Not that I'm aware of.

 

[Essan]

I have bought a £24 ticket from Worcs to Lochailort in the past, but find it very difficult to get anything near that price these days (on any dates that suit me, anyway).