This is a clever way of reducing your rail tickets. You simply buy two tickets instead of one - notionally splitting your journey at one of several special stations. This clever Money Saving Expert tool tells you where to split your journey. You can achieve savings of up to 40% - often without even getting off the train! Worth a try especially for some season ticket holders!
However note:
This tool searches single tickets using only one split
You may need to change trains
The train must call at all stations you buy tickets to and from
The National Rail Enquiries website is now excellent! It literally list all the fares, including the cheapest, and highlights the most economical times of the day. However if you prefer to speak to a person call 03457 484950. This allows you to both plan your journey and buy the tickets - again usually at the best prices.
All this said I would probably use the Split Ticket site for the very cheapest tickets of all!
Rail Europe, the UK subsidiary of SNCF French Railways, are the UK’s leading supplier of rail travel into France and Europe, whether a short break in Paris, a fortnight in Venice, a month backpacking across Europe or a Snow Train journey right into the heart of the French Alps.
You can start your journey with Eurostar into Paris, Brussels, Lille, Avignon, Disneyland Resort Paris and the French Alps, or travel on local trains when already at your destination within Europe.
Connections with the SNCF range of products, including high speed rail, so you can travel with TGV in France, Elipsos to Spain, Thalys to Benelux, Artesia to Italy & Lyria to Switzerland.
Also the official UK website selling the InterRail pass, which gives extensive travel across up to 30 countries - global, single country pass, standard class or first class.
Worth buying a railcard if you are a frequent traveller as you get one-third off the cost of your ticket (although there may be restrictions on times you can travel).
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Shoeburyness, Southend, Basildon, Upminster and Barking and into London Fenchurch Street on the mainline, whilst the Tilbury loop takes you from Pitsea, through Stanford-le-Hope, Tilbury, Grays, Rainham and Barking where you can carry on to Fenchurch Street. Not forgetting the Ockendon Branch line, where you will find Chafford Hundred for Lakeside Shopping Centre.
Covering around 1,500 route miles and calling at over 100 stations - stretching from Aberdeen to Penzance, and from Stansted to Cardiff - CrossCountry is the most extensive rail network in the UK.
East Midlands took over running services on the routes formerly served by Midland Mainline and Central Trains, covering destinations in the East Midlands, including Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Nottingham and Derby.
Southern provides services in South London and between central London and the South Coast, through East and West Sussex and Surrey, and parts of Kent and Hampshire.
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