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I’ve tried doing similar from Bromley South or Beckenham Junction. Both less than 30min bus ride away. I can’t get any of the Trainline type apps to give me a route via London Bridge either. They just suggest via London Victoria or change at Penge. I don’t quite get why what seems like the...

£52 is insane. It’s £28 return on the high speed train. And either £3.60 each way on Norwood Junction to St Pancras, or £1.90 each way between Norwood and Stratford.

Thanks. I saw that the walk to the train is shorter. But it is almost double the cost to go to St Pancras, and there is only two trains from Norwood Junction per hour.

There is also the fact that it doesn’t seem possible to get one National Rail ticket from Norwood Junction to Ashford International via the high speed train route. Which is odd coz it seems the fastest and one of the simplest routes to take - yet it doesn’t come up as a suggested route at all...

Hi All, I’ve got to start regularly going to Ashford International from where I am in Norwood Junction. I can get a direct Thameslink train to St Pancras, but also go via the Overground / Underground to Stratford (London) and walk to Stratford International. The only reason to do Stratford...

Thank you all!

That’s really helpful - thanks. Is there just one route then? I can’t get it wrong and end up taking a longer route? I’ve got 9-10 mins between potential trains, otherwise another half an hour wait.

Hi All, I’ve got to change at St Pancras between Thameslink from Norwood Junction and High Speed train to Ashford International. I don’t know St Pancras at all, can anyone advise how long I need to give to get between the two platforms? And the best route to take? Thanks!

Ah yes - that's my fault, I was looking from either Bromley South or Beckenham Junction and the £22 is BJ. You're right that Bromley South is £21.55!

So i this instance, I'm better off getting tickets via the train operator sites? As the forum ticketing site can't deal with those prices and so buying tickets or searching for best prices will always be better going direct.

Thanks!

Hi All, I'm looking for the cheapest day return from Bromley South to Ashford International. One adult and one child, with a network railcard. The ticketing site here comes up with £26.40, but Trainline gives me £22.44 with this "Kids-for-a-quid Return". OR if I use the Greater Anglia site (the...

Wouldn’t that cost a fortune though? This would be at rush hour so extra pricey!

Sorry - that’s if I was to do the pick up at Bromley South, which was another option.

Yes, the 358 takes a very long time! Similar idea is to take tram to Beckenham Junction station then 162 bus from there to Bromley South. Still £1.75 and much quicker, if transfer time isn’t horrendous! Much cheaper than £5.15 taking tram+train, and potentially only 11 minutes longer...

Not my experience. I’ve been using it since it started and it’s okay, but you have to be careful with it - adjust leaving times by 5 minutes here and there to make sure you get all options. And adjust where it starts from to force it to take certain routes - if I put in my postcode as a start...

I’ve tried that. Citymapper is somewhat hit and miss, giving different routes depending on exact time stated, and often ignoring great routes altogether. I was looking for potentially better routes from the experts!

I’ve also now been potentially offered Bromley South or London Victoria as alternative options. And am confused again. Bromley South seems like the best of the bunch, going same tram-train route I think.

Apparently yes!

This is the quickest route I think. It’s just frustrating that tram journeys are separate costs to train - so I’ll pay tram fare twice with train fare twice in the middle. And I’m not even leaving the station at Orpington. Just collecting child and heading back again.