Long Buckby to Oxford - several times!

[Joey Beauchamp]

I consider myself pretty good at buying train tickets but I'm really struggling with the cost of this one!

I need to drop my son off at my parents for half term and then pick him up again. We have a Family & Friends Railcard. The cheapest I can get it down to is to buy an off-peak return splitting at Leamington Spa for both of us on the railcard, then the same again in the other direction, just for me without a railcard. I should add I'd rather get flexible tickets, the advances aren't much cheaper anyway.

It comes to £92.15 altogether

Then we are definitely doing the same journey together on 28th February and likely also on 8th March. So four times there and back in a month!

Is there any way to get the price down or am I just stuck with it?

 

[HughT]

I realise this is circumventing the core question, but if all else fails I'd take the train to Milton Keynes and then the Stagecoach X5 bus to Oxford (£3 one way). Takes a little longer, for sure, but significantly cheaper. And it drops you in the centre of Oxford.

 

[swt_passenger]

Even if EWR was operating by now, as was hoped, they’d probably have taken fares managers by surprise and there’d be no direct fares loaded yet…