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Peak time arrival in London from Crewe from £39.70 return

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If you need to get to London for around 9am and don't mind an early start in exchange for a much cheaper fare than with Virgin the following option is available:

04:54 Crewe to Shrewsbury (arrives 05:33)
05:52 Shrewsbury to London Marylebone (arrives 08:57)

Crewe to Shrewsbury is £19.70 for an anytime return.
Advance singles are available on any Wrexham & Shropshire from Shrewsbury to London for £10 single (or £40 return to go and come back at any time.)

That may not look an attractive option in itself because of the timings but if you consider Virgin charge you around £200 for an anytime return or £80 in advance and that Wrexham & Shropshire are know to be one of the best operators for customer service and can provide full meals on board it might look a very attractive option to some people.
 
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I can't find an Anytime Return for Crewe -Shrewsbury, or a ticket which costs £19.70.
However there is an Off Peak Return for £14.00, which carries restriction code 8A :-

OUTWARD TRAVEL
Valid on any train.

RETURN TRAVEL
Valid on any train.

so that would bring the total cost down to £34
 

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I can't find an Anytime Return for Crewe -Shrewsbury, or a ticket which costs £19.70.

There must be bugs in the National Rail Enquiries website then but I think we already knew that. I just tried it again and it came up as £11.10 return for Crewe-Shrewsbury leaving before 9.30am!
 
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If you need to get to London for around 9am and don't mind an early start in exchange for a much cheaper fare than with Virgin the following option is available:

04:54 Crewe to Shrewsbury (arrives 05:33)
05:52 Shrewsbury to London Marylebone (arrives 08:57)

Crewe to Shrewsbury is £19.70 for an anytime return.
Advance singles are available on any Wrexham & Shropshire from Shrewsbury to London for £10 single (or £40 return to go and come back at any time.)

That may not look an attractive option in itself because of the timings but if you consider Virgin charge you around £200 for an anytime return or £80 in advance and that Wrexham & Shropshire are know to be one of the best operators for customer service and can provide full meals on board it might look a very attractive option to some people.

You're right it doenst look particularly attractive!
Virgin have £21 advance singles every day if you want to leave at 05.00
 

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You're right it doenst look particularly attractive!
Virgin have £21 advance singles every day if you want to leave at 05.00

Checking the Virgin Trains website for the next couple of weeks the cheapest advance available for the 05:36 Crewe-London is £82 single, on days when £10 singles are available on the Shrewsbury-London service I mentioned. In fact on the 07:17 Crewe-London service it doesn't even look like there are any advance tickets available.
 

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Checking the Virgin Trains website for the next couple of weeks the cheapest advance available for the 05:36 Crewe-London is £82 single, on days when £10 singles are available on the Shrewsbury-London service I mentioned. In fact on the 07:17 Crewe-London service it doesn't even look like there are any advance tickets available.
Sorry my fault, post should have said "Virgin have £21 advances available every day frpm Wolverhampton, on the train that connects from the 0500 from Crewe saving nearly 2 hours on WSMR" In fact Monday is now more expensive but there are no £10 advance single available on WSMR either.
 
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