I’ve just booked a first class split ticket journey from Derby to Berwick. Although the saving is impressive, the site (splitticketing.com) keeps very quiet about the potential musical chairs involved. That journey has 4 different seat reservations. I hope that we will be able to ignore many of them and stay put, but there’s no guarantee. We used to have an elderly relative who travelled that route to visit family. There’s no way I’d risk anything but a single seat reservation for her. I also looked at the raileasy split ticketing site, which also failed to warn of this issue. Granted, it may be in the small print somewhere, but not anything that was drawn to my attention. If there was a way of keeping the same seats it wasn’t obvious to me. The emphasis is entirely on savings, and the only obvious warning is that the train must stop at the split points.
If it wasn’t for the fact that we have to go up and down within 24 hours for a funeral I’d be taking the car. For the two of us, even at standard class with a two together rail card and split tickets the cost is around £180 return. Fuel cost is £70 return, and I’m not tied to specific times.
If it wasn’t for the fact that we have to go up and down within 24 hours for a funeral I’d be taking the car. For the two of us, even at standard class with a two together rail card and split tickets the cost is around £180 return. Fuel cost is £70 return, and I’m not tied to specific times.