Rail Tickets Are on Sale This Week with Discounts of up to 50%
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The Great British Rail Sale is back, folks. The government last ran the nationwide sale back in 2022 and now UK train travellers will once again be able grab some banging bargains.
The massive sale gets underway at midnight tomorrow (Tuesday, January 23) and will apply to journeys taking place between January 30 and March 15. Customers will be able to get up to half price off certain advance and off-peak rail tickets on routes across England and Wales, as well as on cross-border trips into Scotland.
There will be over a million cheap tickets there for the taking, including £15.30 between Birmingham and Bristol (normally £30.60) and £21 tickets from Portsmouth to Penzance (normally £43). You can get your hands on tickets on the Great British Rail Sale website but one caveat to be aware of is that customers will have to pay full fares on strike days.
Rail prices are a non-stop topic of conversation right now. It’s hoped that the upcoming deal will help boost domestic travel but it comes just before train fares are due to rise by 4.9 percent across England on March 3. Elsewhere, off-peak train fares between London and Edinburgh are being scrapped while in some more positive news, London tube prices are being frozen for an extra year.
Written by Amy Houghton - Monday 22 January 2024
That's good news for rail users, I personally don't use the train, I can't remember the last time I went on one
Worth checking out the Great British Rail sale for some new places I could travel to inexpensively!
I had a quick look as used a similar promotion to get Yeovil to London Waterloo return tickets for about £15 or £16 maybe 5 years ago but it looks like only the outward journey is discounted and the price today would be about £33 each plus the station car park fee. I don't consider this good value. I see fares go all the way up to £138 although those allow for tube travel too.
Annoyingly there are no park and ride sites either for London where you can park for free and then take a tube into central London.
A quick check shows a return coach ticket for about £32 each. So actually it is in line with coach travel prices which I hadn't realised had gone up so much.
So really the price is competitive but to my mind seems expensive as has doubled pretty much compared to what I paid before.
If I could have got both ways for £11 each that would be worth doing.
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