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I am after some advice on the daily cap for my travel within London. I have a Gold card and it is loaded onto my Oyster. When I travel in the evening peak (between 1600-1900) on NR from Zone 4 to 1 from a Southern metro station, I will be charged an Oyster peak single fare (@£4.60 single). What...

A cheaper alternative route if (a) you are only transferring between airports and do not require Z1; and (b) you do not have much luggage. You can travel from Clapham Junction to Heathrow using the Overground via West Brompton and Earl's Court for a substantial amount of £1.40 (or £2.60 during...

What about a London-Huddersfield return ticket? It would allow you to go north on East Coast (need to change at Leeds (or Wakefield?) to go via Huddersfield). Use your return portion immediately from Huddersfield on the day and break your journey in Manchester. On your return on Tuesday, you...

I second the suggestions by LexyBoy to book the tickets in two transactions to get the best deal. As for the more expensive ticket, which you quoted as £24.10 single ABD-GLQ, it is worth splitting at Dundee (or you can try different places along the route). There seems to be plenty of lowest...

So the Metrolink group ticket is still available, £10 for four adults is such a bargain given the single/return from Central stations to Old Trafford would be £2.40 per person already. It's somehow misleading the metrolink website doesn't mention such tickets at all. I have to see the...

Thanks for all the information. I don't think we will go all the way round to Eccles and back. We are staying near Piccadilly so the MUF trains seem the best option. I know it's unlikely to be a pleasant journey neither the train or metrolink, but at least the former is only 10 mins so hopefully...

Thanks for info. Just as an experiment checked if any trains appear for Tuesday's Champions League match, and they showed up as three departures from MAN before the match and three returns after. So it seems we have to check again nearer the time. Return tickets priced at £3.50, which we may...

Thanks for prompt reply! That's great, I thought the station was closed as there was no statistics for MUF in the station usage figures published... At what time roughly do these trains run? It'll be 3pm kick-off on Saturday so I guess 1-ish would be a good bet? And do they run a return...

Four of us are going to the league game at Old Trafford next week Saturday 19 March). I was searching for trains to Manchester United Football Ground halt (MUF) but to no avail. Does Northern still run trains to this station on match days? If not, I guess we will have to go on the Metrolink...

Thanks for all the advice. It looks like it'll be a WCML excursion for me then. Hopefully can make my way in time for the 1630 EUS-GLC! What is the loading of this train mid-week usually btw?

My journey shall originate from Dundee. What would be the restriction code for this ticket? Thanks.

I would like to get some advice about the restrictions which apply to departure for Scottish destinations from various London termini on weekday afternoons using the return portion of a super off-peak return. The East Coast website states travel northbound from KGX with a super off-peak ticket...

The LDS-MAN CDR should be further split at HUD, given you are stopping at HUD anyway. And even if you don't, all trains on that line stop at HUD en-route between LDS and MAN. Haven't been in Yorkshire for a while, you may also want to check out the Northern Duo deal to see if it is applicable to...

My guess would be the Glasgow portion at the front. Travelled on the 1816 last month which split at Preston for Edinburgh/Barrow, and the Scottish portion was at the front. However, I don't know if the formation is always the same on a day-to-day basis.

Try booking the advance on the EC 0700 EDB-NCL on the eastcoast website. It's currently @£9.80 (or £18.50 1st class). Then change onto the XC following suit at NCL, splitting at DHM. Anytime XC only tickets are £3.10 NCL-DHM and £22.30 DHM-LDS, which total £36.20 and get you into Leeds at 1008...

I think it is difficult to draw up a rules-of-thumb as where to split. I do the York-Scotland route on the east coast every now and then, and have managed to save cost splitting at Newcastle, Alnmouth, Berwick and/or Edinburgh. Though never had any luck with Dunbar/Durham. York and Newcastle...

Thanks everyone for all advice. The DEE-CRE via CAR option seems to suit me best. I don't mind going via Manchester on the return leg as time is not as tight as the outward journey. On another note, I tried searching for the same journey but starting from EDB/GLC, which I believe are routeing...

I wonder if this is an anomaly in the booking system. I need to travel from Dundee to Wilmslow mid-week next week, just staying overnight there and then return to Scotland. I was searching for available flexible fares on the EC website, and noted the off-peak return without railcard is £91.30...

I would like to ask if a Bradford (Yorks stns) - York off-peak return ticket allows a break of journey at Leeds on the outward portion? It seems all journeys require a change of trains at Leeds. By BOJ, I mean going through the ticket barriers twice at Leeds leaving and re-entering the...

You can try the cross-country route via Bristol, which takes roughly the same time as changing in MAN. Haven't checked all dates, but there are some advance non-flexible £16.85 singles (with railcard) for BRI-YRK on the Wednesday 13th. This could possibly be further reduced by splitting at...