ivorytoast28
Member
Hello,
I'm sure this is a fairly common question so I apologise but as someone living within 30 miles of london I've always had this problem.
It is always significantly cheaper to but London to -> Anywhere tickets separately from Guildford-London. But I've never trusted SWR. I also overcomplicate it in that I always travel Guildford-Wimbledon (either direct or via woking), and then Wimbledon-St pancras. this is marginally cheaper but more importantly is far easier with luggage than using the underground.
So I have my advance ticket from Kings cross on LNER and need to get to kings cross. I buy a single ticket. I always give insane amounts of additional time, because I never trust SWR, I've used them 4 times to make this journey and so far every single time there has been an issue (once I was stranded at effingham junction and lucky some chelsea fans drove me to parsons green, another time SWR dumped me at surbiton for over an hour running every service non stop through wimbledon to save themselves).
And I understand but my question is this:
Say I have a 12:00 ticket out of kings cross. And buy a ticket from Guildford at 10am,2 hours before (should get me to waterloo at 10:30 and kings cross at 10:50) but then SWR do what they do and make me miss my train is this my fault or can I travel still freely on a later train?
I guess my question is how much time do I have to leave for me to be allowed to miss my advance booking when an anytime ticket train gets delayed as SWR always do?
And if none how early should I book? It's getting to the point I feel I have to wait 2/3 hours at kings cross just because I have zero faith in SWR which seems insane
Also what if instead of LNER it is Eurostar as hopefully soon it will be?
I'm sure this is a fairly common question so I apologise but as someone living within 30 miles of london I've always had this problem.
It is always significantly cheaper to but London to -> Anywhere tickets separately from Guildford-London. But I've never trusted SWR. I also overcomplicate it in that I always travel Guildford-Wimbledon (either direct or via woking), and then Wimbledon-St pancras. this is marginally cheaper but more importantly is far easier with luggage than using the underground.
So I have my advance ticket from Kings cross on LNER and need to get to kings cross. I buy a single ticket. I always give insane amounts of additional time, because I never trust SWR, I've used them 4 times to make this journey and so far every single time there has been an issue (once I was stranded at effingham junction and lucky some chelsea fans drove me to parsons green, another time SWR dumped me at surbiton for over an hour running every service non stop through wimbledon to save themselves).
And I understand but my question is this:
Say I have a 12:00 ticket out of kings cross. And buy a ticket from Guildford at 10am,2 hours before (should get me to waterloo at 10:30 and kings cross at 10:50) but then SWR do what they do and make me miss my train is this my fault or can I travel still freely on a later train?
I guess my question is how much time do I have to leave for me to be allowed to miss my advance booking when an anytime ticket train gets delayed as SWR always do?
And if none how early should I book? It's getting to the point I feel I have to wait 2/3 hours at kings cross just because I have zero faith in SWR which seems insane
Also what if instead of LNER it is Eurostar as hopefully soon it will be?