Ticket routing advice on Newcastle to Bath

[schmoo_smith]

I'm planning on taking a trip to bath soon and i was wondering if buy a standard ticket going from newcastle to bath avoiding london would i be able to take a train to carlisle and then onto tamworth on that ticket, my reason for this is that i have never been on pendolino before and have been wanting to travel on them since they came about, if not i was thinking a rover of some kind, can anyone give me advice on them if this is the case?

many thanks

martin

 

[yorkie]

There won't be a rover valid all that way.

Is this a single or a return?

As for routeing, have you had a look at the Routeing Guide? http://www.atoc.org/rsp/Routeing_Guide.asp

Newcastle & Bath are both Routeing Points so you can dive straight in and look at the mapped routes.
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Had a quick look at the maps, and I'm pretty sure it's not valid via Carlisle.

The shortest route is always permitted, and the shortest route from Haltwhistle to Bath is via Carlisle. This is priced at £116.70, the same as from NCL. You can add a Newcastle-Haltwhistle SDS for £10.10 to do a circular trip. There may be a cheaper way.

 

[schmoo_smith]

it will be a single, maybe i cud just buy a single to carlise then book a cheap single from carlise to tamworth then another onto bath

 

[tony_mac]

am I being dense, 'cos I can't see any service from Carlisle to Tamworth, and isn't Tamworth going the wrong way? (east of Birmingham)

I think that you can get a ticket from Hexham, which is valid via Carlisle, and then you could take a pendolino as far as warrington (it's a bit cheaper to split your ticket at Warrington as well).

If you can get convenient advance tickets, then taking the Pendolino all the way to London might be an option, it may even be quicker than changing at Warrington, Birmingham and Bristol

 

[yorkie]

Tamworth would be a good interchange point if you can get trains that call there, not not many ex-Glasgow trains do (none do in the current weekday service!)

Realistically you're looking at changing elsewhere, and Stafford is no use. Even if the Glasgow to London train calls there (unlikely), the Manchester-Bristol trains do not call there. So you may have to change several times if you want to get a Pendo!

 

[Techniquest]

The OP could always change at Crewe and Newport? Unless there's no Pendolini from Carlisle to Crewe.

 

[yorkie]

The OP could always change at Crewe and Newport? Unless there's no Pendolini from Carlisle to Crewe.

A good way to avoid Voyagers, yes!