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Also the Reach plc newspapers: https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/newspaper-offer/reach-plc

 

[Par]

When collecting these tokens from the newspapers (Daily Star appears to be the cheapest) do they have to be from different days (ie are the tokens dated) or can you buy two on the same day and that will do the job?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ServerHoster]

You can buy them on the same day

 

[AntoniC]

I buy all of my needed Liverpool Echo`s on the same day.
The look of the newsagents as I buy 10 copies is a picture.

 

[supervalkoinen]

Transport for Wales - Sale on Advance tickets.

Advance rail sale | Transport for Wales

Transport for Wales | Buy Cheap Train Tickets and Check Train Times

tfw.wales

I was surprised not to get any email notification as I generally get the TFW alerts.

Fares are visible on National Rail, Forum site and other sites but not on TPE mixing desk, which also surprised me.

Edit: Now received TFW alert (twice) and advance fares now showing in mixing deck.

 

[greatkingrat]

Money Saving Expert have details of a free four-year 16-25 Railcard being offered by Santander if you open a savings account with them. They claim that a 25 year old can use the offer and get a Railcard valid until they are 29.

Is this likely to be correct or have MSE misunderstood the offer? Normally the best you can get is a card valid until the day before your 27th birthday.

Last chance: Aged 20 to 25? Trick to get a FREE four-year railcard worth £100 from Santander

Aged 20 to 25? You can get a free four-year railcard worth £100 from Santander. MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis explains how.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

 

[styles]

Money Saving Expert have details of a free four-year 16-25 Railcard being offered by Santander if you open a savings account with them. They claim that a 25 year old can use the offer and get a Railcard valid until they are 29.

Is this likely to be correct or have MSE misunderstood the offer? Normally the best you can get is a card valid until the day before your 27th birthday.

Last chance: Aged 20 to 25? Trick to get a FREE four-year railcard worth £100 from Santander

Aged 20 to 25? You can get a free four-year railcard worth £100 from Santander. MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis explains how.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

Seems quite unusual.

It is a fixed 4 year Railcard, which you are eligible to obtain providing you are aged 20-25 at the time https://www.santander.co.uk/personal/current-accounts/railcard-offer

However you redeem the code on this branded section of the Railcards website: https://secure.railcard.co.uk/purchase/santander

Which, if you click any of the links to Santander 16-25 Railcard terms, you get taken to the normal 16-25 Railcard terms, which talk about 1 and 3 year Railcards and birthdays, but nothing about this 4 year Santander Railcard. It's also confusing they've called it a Santander 16-25 Railcard when you can't get it until you're 20, but nevermind.

It does seem that MSE is correct though - if you open the account when you're saying 25 and 364 days old, you'll get a 16-25 Railcard valid until the day before your 30th birthday.

I suppose since the introduction of 26-30 Railcards it's not really a great 'hack' unless you really need the different morning or summer holidays validity which comes with a 16-25 Railcard. It's a nice saving on the normal cost of buying 16-25 / 26-30 Railcards though.

 

[Pemberton]

Uber have an Uber One Members Week from 16/5/2025 - 23/5/2025 whereby one of the offers is 20% back in Uber Credits on train bookings during this period, double the normal Uber One members 10% and non members of course receive 5% credit. I would add that I had left Uber One and have been offered a free 30 days membership to rejoin. I've made a note to cancel membership before any payment is taken!

 

[island]

My British Airways American Express card is now offering 5 Avios per £1 spent on Avanti, to a maximum of 3,000 Avios. I will probably stick with the LNER 10% cashback.

 

[lnerazuma]

GA is now on seatfrog.
London to Cambridge £7 / Colchester £9 / Ipswich £10 / Norwich £11

 

[Kite159]

GA is now on seatfrog.
London to Cambridge £7 / Colchester £9 / Ipswich £10 / Norwich £11

What on earth will someone be paying £7 (+) for on a London to Cambridge GA service?

 

[A S Leib]

What on earth will someone be paying £7 (+) for on a London to Cambridge GA service?

That seems to be the secret fare price rather than a first class upgrade. Not brilliant value in some cases, given that e.g. the Greater Anglia-only off-peak day return is £18.30 with a railcard.

 

[lnerazuma]

What on earth will someone be paying £7 (+) for on a London to Cambridge GA service?

Ironically I always do it when travelling between London and Cambridge using the WAML with a change in Stansted Airport. Both legs with comfortable & well maintained 2+2 configuration Swiss train with table and socket guaranteed is a real hit, in my view it's even way more decent than the GN/TL 1st class experience. I'm quite sure that if GA had the vision to invest in more class 745 for Cambridge route, there would be considerable amount of City commuters switch to its service.

 

[mrmartin]

Uber have an Uber One Members Week from 16/5/2025 - 23/5/2025 whereby one of the offers is 20% back in Uber Credits on train bookings during this period, double the normal Uber One members 10% and non members of course receive 5% credit. I would add that I had left Uber One and have been offered a free 30 days membership to rejoin. I've made a note to cancel membership before any payment is taken!

Surprised not more chat about this. Booked an awful lot of tickets with this discount.

FWIW Uber one also tends to offer a massive discount for 3 months when you attempt to cancel. I think I'm paying 99p/month at the moment!

 

[Mark J]

Surprised not more chat about this. Booked an awful lot of tickets with this discount.

FWIW Uber one also tends to offer a massive discount for 3 months when you attempt to cancel. I think I'm paying 99p/month at the moment!

I was offered 12 months for £40 when I cancelled Uber One.

I could not justify paying that for an extra 5% in rail fare rebates.

The problem with the enhanced rebates in Uber One - you have to be a member when you book and when the rebate comes through - in order to get the full amount.

I do think Uber deliberately delay some payouts if you are nearing the end of your membership period.

I had one rebate that took longer than usual to come through, as I was nearing the end of my Uber One membership. Suspiciously it then arrived two days after the membership ended - at the standard 5% rate.

 

[kkong]

The ScotRail Club 50 flat fare return offer is back.

It's now £19 return, up from the £17 the past couple of years.

Details below. Booking via the link shown on the My ScotRail page of the ScotRail website for those who have a current Club 50 membership.

Club 50 £19 Flat Fare Return Terms & Conditions

• The £19 Club 50 Flat Fare Return ticket offer is open to new and existing Club 50 members with an active membership
• Available for open return travel between any two Scottish stations on ScotRail services (and First TransPennine Express services to/from Lockerbie) only. (where usual ticket price is higher than £19).
• Travel Off-Peak, seven days a week.
• Valid on ScotRail services (and First TransPennine Express services to/from Lockerbie) from 21 May 2025 until 25 June 2025.
• Also valid on First TransPennine Express services to/from Reston.
• Return tickets are valid for up to one month and all travel must be completed by 24 July 2025.
• This offer is non-refundable, and you can’t make changes to your travel plans.
• There are no First Class upgrades available and the offer can’t be used in conjunction with any other rail promotional offers or Railcards.
• You can only break your journey to change trains.
• You can buy as many Flat Fare tickets as you like during the promotional period, but all passengers must be Club 50 members.
• If you are buying Flat Fare tickets online, you can only purchase two per transaction.
• You must present your Club 50 Smartcard with your £19 promotional ticket to validate travel.
• Your Club 50 membership must be active for both the outbound and return legs of your journey.
• You may be asked to show proof of age.

 

[Pemberton]

The current Uber One Members week 20% rebate offer terms and conditions refer to active membership at the time of booking and at the time of travel, the latter slightly different to the date the rebate comes through. It does also state the rebate will be paid within 10 days of completion of the first leg of a booking. I fully understand comments as to whether the paid for version of Uber One is worth it, depending on any offers Uber make to reduce the normal monthly fee, though with the free 30 day trial, including the Members Week 20% rebate, it is proving a considerable saving for tickets booked for travel both during the week and booked during the Members week for use until the end of the free trial.

 

[Mark J]

The current Uber One Members week 20% rebate offer terms and conditions refer to active membership at the time of booking and at the time of travel, the latter slightly different to the date the rebate comes through. It does also state the rebate will be paid within 10 days of completion of the first leg of a booking. I fully understand comments as to whether the paid for version of Uber One is worth it, depending on any offers Uber make to reduce the normal monthly fee, though with the free 30 day trial, including the Members Week 20% rebate, it is proving a considerable saving for tickets booked for travel both during the week and booked during the Members week for use until the end of the free trial.

If 'Member Days' is to be a regular occurance - like every couple of months - it might be worth rejoining Uber again.

Especially if 'Member Days' happens to run during the GWR and GB Rail Sales in January.

Also, how is the free 30 days trial determined? If I rejoin now, would I get this, or is it down to luck?

I did see the 30 day trial is also eligible for people who rejoin Uber One.

 

[unsatisfied]

Discounts spotted on another forum:
£5 off for new Trainpal sign-ups (details) (expires 1 June)
£5 off for new Uber sign-ups (details) (expires 31 January 2026) note that not all national rail services can be booked with Uber

 

[YorkC]

Health Service Discounts / Discounts for Teachers TPE discount seems to have stopped working for me. I can generate codes, enter them, but they aren't providing any discount.

Unidays LNER discount seems to have disappeared too, but that happens every few months then has always come back...

 

[800Travel]

Health Service Discounts / Discounts for Teachers TPE discount seems to have stopped working for me. I can generate codes, enter them, but they aren't providing any discount.

Unidays LNER discount seems to have disappeared too, but that happens every few months then has always come back...

Wonder if it has gone for the summer, or gone for good. Anyone spoken with TPE to confirm?

 

[YorkC]

I've asked Health Service Discounts customer support first - never got anything useful out of TPE before when I've asked about their web bookings.

 

[A S Leib]

If booking before 7 June, there's 20% off Eurostar tickets for travel between 24 June and 9 September excluding 27, 29 June, 6, 7, 25-28 July and 22 and 25 August (plus engineering works affecting Rotterdam / Amsterdam on 28-29 June and 9-10 August).

 

[Fawkes Cat]

Topcashback have a headline 'trainline - up to 20%'. On closer inspection at https://www.topcashback.co.uk/thetrainline/, this is for a new customer buying a railcard, but it's interesting to note that for LNER tickets Trainline are offering 15% for new customers / 10% existing customers as opposed to the 1% they offer for everything else. So is this Trainline's response to LNER's 10% cashback on AmEx, or trying to get established in the east coast market?

 

[styles]

Topcashback have a headline 'trainline - up to 20%'. On closer inspection at https://www.topcashback.co.uk/thetrainline/, this is for a new customer buying a railcard, but it's interesting to note that for LNER tickets Trainline are offering 15% for new customers / 10% existing customers as opposed to the 1% they offer for everything else. So is this Trainline's response to LNER's 10% cashback on AmEx, or trying to get established in the east coast market?

Trainline already has a cashback arrange with Complete Savings, which gets a 10% discount on Trainline and a bunch of other retailers. It looks like a scam website, but it's actually an excellent cashback site.

 

[canary fan]

Trainline already has a cashback arrange with Complete Savings, which gets a 10% discount on Trainline and a bunch of other retailers. It looks like a scam website, but it's actually an excellent cashback site.

You are correct that complete savings is excellent. However, I’ve found in the past that Trainline purchases don’t track very well. I always use Trip or Transport for Wales, both of which track almost immediately.

 

[Joe Paxton]

Trainline already has a cashback arrange with Complete Savings, which gets a 10% discount on Trainline and a bunch of other retailers. It looks like a scam website, but it's actually an excellent cashback site.

You are correct that complete savings is excellent. However, I’ve found in the past that Trainline purchases don’t track very well. I always use Trp or Transport for Wales, both of which track almost immediately.

The lack of any readily available information on the Complete Savings website as to what their monthly membership actually costs is rather frustrating.

 

[styles]

The lack of any readily available information on the Complete Savings website as to what their monthly membership actually costs is rather frustrating.

Don't disagree.

It's £15/month, but if you make a purchase with the retailer you joined through, you get the monthly fee back. I joined through Trainline, so I buy a Matlock-Matlock Bath ticket once a month for £1.40 (there may be a cheaper ticket, I'm not sure). I make that back easily, as they give 10%+ cashback at almost any major retailer, including reloadable cards for supermarket groceries.

A bit like credit cards relying on people not paying off in full every month, they rely on the people who don't make the qualifying purchase each month.

 

[James H]

The sister site NX Rewards is actually slightly better as you can make your monthly purchase with any participating retailer, not just the one you joined through

 

[styles]

The sister site NX Rewards is actually slightly better as you can make your monthly purchase with any participating retailer, not just the one you joined through

That's good to know! I see the terms for it say that 'This offer can vary', so it may change in the future, but that's a solid offer as it stands!