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Best way to book train tickets

All the train companies websites use the same timetables and fares database btw, so there's no shopping around (unless a particular operator has a promotional discount or something)
 
Crispy said:
All the train companies websites use the same timetables and fares database btw, so there's no shopping around (unless a particular operator has a promotional discount or something)
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What if you only have space for a certain number of apps to be displayed and are REALLY lazy?
 
thetrainline actually provides the booking engine for a few of the TOCs' own websites, so if you use one of them you're using exactly the same system except you don't get charged for it.
 
Bungle73 said:
Then Any Permitted ticket IS the standard fare You get a DISCOUNT for restricting yourself to a single TOC. It's hardly "a con".

Pay twice as much? Really......??

East Croydon to Brighton Off Peak Day Return FCC trains only £13.50
East Croydon to Brighton Off Peak Day Return Any Permitted £17.70

KGX to Peterborough Off Peak Day Return FCC trains only £25
KGX to Peterborough Off Peak Day Return Any Permitted £29.70
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Tell me why there should be ANY difference? There never used to be! Tell me how this improves things for me? What am I getting for this extra cost that I didn't get before? How is it not a con?

Another thing; never forget to say 'return' if you buy from the counter, otherwise you'll automatically get the single ticket presumably cos it's cheaper. I only realised when it was too late last weekend.
 
GB4 said:
Tell me why there should be ANY difference? There never used to be! Tell me how this improves things for me? What am I getting for this extra cost that I didn't get before?
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Oh FFS. You're clearly some kind of troll. It improves things by giving you a DISCOUNT if you restrict yourself to a single TOC. How hard is that to understand??

How is it not a con?
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How IS it a "con"?

Another thing; never forget to say 'return' if you buy from the counter, otherwise you'll automatically get the single ticket presumably cos it's cheaper. I only realised when it was too late last weekend.
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Well maybe you should specify what it is you want instead of expecting ticket office staff to be mind readers............
 
Crispy said:
All the train companies websites use the same timetables and fares database btw, so there's no shopping around (unless a particular operator has a promotional discount or something)
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I think we need to write a bot to repost that to this thread at frequent intervals. ;)
 
Bungle73 said:
That's what I keep telling people, but no one seems to be taking the blindest bit of notice.
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Yeah so you keep saying now shut the fuck up you dull fucking shitcunt.

Roadkill said:
Oh no, all it needs is a link to thetrainline.com. May as well delete this thread once we have that, really. ;)
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And you, you're just as bad as that other twat. IT'S A QUID, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO PAY A QUID TO BUY THEIR TRAIN TICKET THEN THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS, SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU. Fucking hell it's like battle of the autisms on here some times. Most of the time in fact. People getting upset on the internet and obsessing about the most pointless shit because they can't accept other people have different things opinions and have to post endless amounts of drivel to try and convince them they're right.
 
_pH_ said:
Yeah so you keep saying now shut the fuck up you dull fucking shitcunt.



And you, you're just as bad as that other twat. IT'S A QUID, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO PAY A QUID TO BUY THEIR TRAIN TICKET THEN THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS, SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU. Fucking hell it's like battle of the autisms on here some times. Most of the time in fact. People getting upset on the internet and obsessing about the most pointless shit because they can't accept other people have different things opinions and have to post endless amounts of drivel to try and convince them they're right.
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No, you shut the up. I'm guessing you're moron I had the argument with before? For your information this is a public forum and I will say what I like.

Tell me why the fuck anyone would want to pay a fee to do something they could do elsewhere, THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING, for FREE? It really beggars believe. Considering the nature of this forum it's all very odd imho.
 
Bungle73 said:
No, you shut the up. I'm guessing you're moron I had the argument with before? For your information this is a public forum and I will say what I like.

Tell me why the fuck anyone would want to pay a fee to do something they could do elsewhere, THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING, for FREE? It really beggars believe. Considering the nature of this forum it's all very odd imho.
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UPSET ON THE INTERNET!
 
_pH_ said:
UPSET ON THE INTERNET!
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You mus be talking about yourself....

If you don't want to be told the best way to book train tickets, don't come stomping into a thread called "BEST WAY TO BOOK TRAIN TICKETS"! :facepalm:
 
_pH_ said:
And you, you're just as bad as that other twat. IT'S A QUID, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO PAY A QUID TO BUY THEIR TRAIN TICKET THEN THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS, SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU. Fucking hell it's like battle of the autisms on here some times. Most of the time in fact. People getting upset on the internet and obsessing about the most pointless shit because they can't accept other people have different things opinions and have to post endless amounts of drivel to try and convince them they're right.
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Jesus Christ! :eek: Calm down mate. I was doing a bit of gentle winding - I don't much care what site people use to book their tickets, frankly.
 
Bungle73 said:
Then Any Permitted ticket IS the standard fare You get a DISCOUNT for restricting yourself to a single TOC. It's hardly "a con".

Pay twice as much? Really......??

East Croydon to Brighton Off Peak Day Return FCC trains only £13.50
East Croydon to Brighton Off Peak Day Return Any Permitted £17.70

KGX to Peterborough Off Peak Day Return FCC trains only £25
KGX to Peterborough Off Peak Day Return Any Permitted £29.70
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Birmingham Stations to Wolverton: Advance (2 singles) - £10; super off peak (unbooked) - £14; super off peak single (unbooked) £13.50; peak single - dunno as I would never get one but more - about £19 iirc, a return is more like £30+

Fuck you London Midland, fuck you.
 
Southern have stopped offering cashback, and it looks like they won't start again any time soon. Back to RSH I go.
 
Bungle73 said:
No, you shut the up. I'm guessing you're moron I had the argument with before? For your information this is a public forum and I will say what I like.

Tell me why the fuck anyone would want to pay a fee to do something they could do elsewhere, THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING, for FREE? It really beggars believe. Considering the nature of this forum it's all very odd imho.
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I think I'm that moron tbf
 
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