For the Everton game I stayed over. I paid £31 going up from Euston and it was £35 back, though I did get £8.90 back on delay and repay - well worth registering for. You can almost factor in a bit of a delay. Those were Advance rate tickets, though there may have been some slightly cheaper times to travel than when I went.Cheers for that. Good find. Wish there was a way of finding out likely prices, as I’ll need to make a decision on deferment before then
I should have added that was with a Railcard discountFor the Everton game I stayed over. I paid £31 going up from Euston and it was £35 back, though I did get £8.90 back on delay and repay - well worth registering for. You can almost factor in a bit of a delay. Those were Advance rate tickets, though there may have been some slightly cheaper times to travel than when I went.
They do not offer cheap fares to be nice to the travellers. Putting up prices at weekends will cost the railways passengers and lose them money. I assume that the absence of discounted fares is due to technical factors and uncertainties over the short term as @staffsblue has already pointed out.
Once things get back to something approaching normality, I expect the saver prices to be restored. Apart from anything else a number of people have shifted from rail to private car during the pandemic. The railways will want to win back this trade. I suppose it will depend if there is a big backlog if maintenance works with weekend closures.
We normally travel from Edinburgh by rail for match days. For the Everton match, the West Coast line was shut north of Carlisle for engineering works and the price to travel East Coast to Manchester via York was ridiculously high. So we ended up driving down and staying overnight.
I have rarely had to stand on the train from Edinburgh. I use the cunning ploy of buying advanced tickets with free reservation. The only problems tend to occur when the train was broken down and a four-car train replacement arrived instead of eight.I find it cheaper and easier to drive from Edinburgh every home game - never stay over.
There’s me and either 3 or 4 kids, so a tank of petrol is far better than the cost for train tickets. That and about 90% of the time we’ve used the train it’s been standing room only and despite having reserved seats, we can’t get anywhere near them until we’re well into Cumbria.
Yes, not sure I fancy the train from South Wales either as that is always rammed both ways. I drive to all evening games and thinking might have to drive for all weekend games as well next season. Will miss having a beer but it is what it is.What worries me are the cattle truck conditions on the metro and usually on the stopping train to Crewe on the way home.
Even though l've had the jabs l don't relish being inches away from other people's respiratory intakes/exhausts.
I have rarely had to stand on the train from Edinburgh. I use the cunning ploy of buying advanced tickets with free reservation. The only problems tend to occur when the train was broken down and a four-car train replacement arrived instead of eight.
The trains are rarely crowded until we get to Preston (sometimes Lancaster) on the way down. Coming back on Saturday night it is generally crowded at least until Preston but not when travelling back on Sunday or Monday morning.
will travel there and back in a day with a 12:30 or 3:00 start time. Otherwise it is next to impossible. We do like to stay over in Manchester some weeks and go out for a meal. It also means we can have a drink before and/or after the match.
As long as the trains remain disrupted, we will probably continue to drive but hopefully things may be better by the start of the season.
We see the train from Wales flying past so fast that we can't see its full. I was considering going to Crewe, paying full whack from there and getting a train such as the Wales fast train but l am not sure now and l don't know about validity of tickets with the various companies.Yes, not sure I fancy the train from South Wales either as that is always rammed both ways. I drive to all evening games and thinking might have to drive for all weekend games as well next season. Will miss having a beer but it is what it is.