button_boxer
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I'm trying to find the cheapest combination of walk-up tickets that would allow me to travel on the 08:20 CrossCountry service from Sheffield to Birmingham on a weekday morning and return around 18:00 on a different day. The through SOR is £75, I've got it down to £50.60 with a combination of two over-distance starting short anomalies, can anyone do better than that (by PM if appropriate)?
This will be a semi-regular journey and I intend to look for advances when they are available and I know the dates, but I just wanted to get an idea of the price ceiling above which it's not worth bothering with advance tickets.
The return can be more flexible but I'd really like to stick to the fast through train on the outward unless there's a huge saving to be made otherwise (but still getting to Birmingham by 09:30).
This will be a semi-regular journey and I intend to look for advances when they are available and I know the dates, but I just wanted to get an idea of the price ceiling above which it's not worth bothering with advance tickets.
The return can be more flexible but I'd really like to stick to the fast through train on the outward unless there's a huge saving to be made otherwise (but still getting to Birmingham by 09:30).